What is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For about?
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Gritty citizens and reviled figures collide in a brisk, darkly comic, and pulpy urban thriller.
Dark satire. A late-night trip at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For parents guide
The thing to know: strong sex and nudity, more than an R usually carries. Beyond that, brutal violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Graphic gore
- Blood and wounds shown clearly.
- Violence
- Brutal violence
- Our top level for violence.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- Is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For scary?
- Only a little. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For?
- Graphic gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
- What is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For rated, and is it OK for kids?
- No. It is rated R, with strong sex and nudity, brutal violence, and frequent strong language.
Cast and crew
Directed byFrank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
StarringJessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green
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