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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. Parental Guide. Marv Mickey Rourke wakes up trying to recall the previous night. He was watching Nancy Jessica Alba dance. Then he gives chase to a bunch of frat boys trying to torch a homeless man.
He kills the guys with the help of the unseen residents of the Projects. Johnny wins but Roark gets back at him knowing that he's his son. Years earlier, hard-boiled private eye Dwight Josh Brolin is still entranced by Ava Eva Green who keeps pulling him back in.
Ava turns on him and Gail Rosario Dawson takes him in. The movie starts off fine but unimpressive. The originality of the visual look is long gone. The look is still great but it doesn't have the same shock value. Somewhere along the line, I lose interest in the constantly rotating parade of characters.
The most impressive thing is that Alba can still play her younger self. The second half gets tired like Nancy being tired of Kadie's. The second half of the original elevates its brutality but this one grinds down. Marv Mickey Rourke is unconscious on a highway surrounded by corpses. The cocky gambler Johnny Joseph Gordon Levitt hits jackpot in slot machines in the Kadie's saloon and invites the waitress Marcie Julia Garner to go with him to play poker game against the powerful Senator Roark Powers Boothe.
Ava asks him for forgiveness for leaving him to marry the wealthy Damian Lord Marton Csokas. However her strong chauffeur Manute Dennis Haysbert takes her home. Marv rescues Dwight and takes him to the Old Town where Dwight finds his former lover Gail Rosario Dawson that helps him to recover while Dwight plots revenge against the manipulative Ava. Again the movie is so violent that becomes caricatural. There are basically three subplots entwined at the Kadie's saloon. The first with Marv is pointless and ultra-violent.
The second one with the cocky gambler holds the attention but disappoints in the end. The third is the best one with a private detective under the spell of a wicked femme fatale that is unable to resist to her charm.
Like in the first movie, the black and white cinematography is stylish. My vote is seven. I had to watch it again because I could not recall the plot at all. I have seen the original many years ago and I can recall that story.
So I wanted to see why this was so anodyne and forgettable.. It has the hyper violence and sexual sleaziness. This hard boiled pastiche of film noir soon becomes wearisome. Some of the stories are just pointless and vapid. A good example is Johnny's story. He is a young cocky gambler who has come to Sin City to look for his real father. He takes on Senator Roark in a poker game and humiliates him. Roark does not take defeat kindly and takes revenge even though he knows who Johnny is.
When Johnny later returns for revenge. I was just left open mouthed that the story led nowhere. What was Johnny's plan? It is the best story but it is all overlong. The film is stylish bit it brings nothing new to the table.
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