Sin
City 2 A Dame To Kill For 6/10
Today
Koko and I went to check out Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. I wasn't
expecting too much from this but it was better than I expected it to
be. It has been almost ten years since the first film and it shows on
some of the actors and actresses most notably Mickey Rourke. Missing
were two actors that have passed away since the first film Brittany
Murphy as Shellie and Michael Clark Duncan as Manute who was replaced
by Dennis Haysbert as well as Devon Aoki as Miho who is pregnant.
The
first story is a col short story starring Marv where he wakes up not
knowing where he is or what he has been doing. He realizes that he's
back in his old neighborhood and chasing these guys that burned a
homeless guy. Its pretty fast where he has the guys murdered and
kills a few himself while playing back how he got there. Short and
sweet and very...very violent.
Next
is what I think is the best one and proof that Joseph Gordon Levitt
is an American treasure. He plays Johnny who is a guy that can not
seem to lose. He grabs this girl at the bar, hits two jackpots on a
slot machine, and kicks senator Roarke's ass at poker. By the way,
Powers Boothe as Roarke is amazing. When these two are on screen
together its fucking magic. This is a super brutal segment where you
see a man's fingers broken one by one with a pair of pliers. This was
hands down my favorite part of the movies.
This
is the longest segment and the one that was the least interesting. It
shows Josh Brolin as Dwight who was played by Clive Owen in the first
film. This takes place before that story so it is before he got
surgery to look different. Ava played by Eva Green comes back into
Dwight's life harping about her new husband hurting her. Dwight helps
and gets his ass handed to him by Manute. With the help of the Old
Town girls he gets a new face that looks like his old one with long
hair. Its silly and I wish Clive Owen wasn't so busy with The Knick
(which is an amazing show by the way) to be in this. Rosario Dawson
looked good though.
This
segment would have been better if it were shorter or not so heavy
handed. Frank Miller's writing reads fine but when people say this
stuff out loud it made people in the theater laugh a few times. Green
as Ava didn't carry the weight that other actresses would have been
able to pull off. She was nude a lot but that doesn't make up for her
not good acting. Oh, and Miho being replaced by Jamie Chung stank.
She was cute but she didn't have that creepy, deadly vibe that Devon Aoki had.
Christopher
Lloyd shows up as a back alley doctor who helps fix Johnny
up...badly. Johnny wants Roarke to acknowledge that he is his son but
Roarke knows and doesn't give a damn. They play another crazy ass
game of poker that ends very badly for one of them.
The
last segment involves Nancy played by Jessica Alba. She plays one of
the most lusted after strippers in Sin City that wears the most
clothes. She wears baggy draws when she dances, people. She is going
nuts and seeing visions of Bruce Willis' John Hartigan. She plans on
assassinating Roarke and Marv ends up helping her out. Marv is in
almost every segment of this. This was an original story made for
this movie and you could tell that Miller was trying his best to
write the way he used to. This was a cool film but didn't have the
same cool vibe that the first film had. This segment could have been
left out an you wouldn't have noticed. I checked and this movie
debuted at number 8 which is really bad and made just $12 million
when it cost between $50 and $60 million. Yeesh.
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