Sin City: A Dame to Kill for
Sin City 2 crash and burned at the box office. A Frank Miller film (author/director) is a
male testosterone affair offered as film noir. Sin City 1 and 2 combined
animation and live action. The animation tones down the brutal violence.
Instead of a spray of blood gushing from the neck on screen it is rendered like
white out. Sex is the other main ingredient of this film which always mixes
well with violence. Sin City 2 had more nudity than the prior movie; female
thank goodness.
Both movies had these elements, so what happened to Sin City
2? I think Sin City 1 was better written, it followed the original graphic
novel. For its time it was also unique. The movies are made up of sub stories
with their own dedicated caste. I think these sub stories were richer and more
intriguing in the first film. In Sin
City 2 there two main sub stories, one with Joseph Gordon –Levitt and the other
with Eva Green. Gordon-Levitt’s story was unsophisticated and disappointing.
Eva Green’s story went on a bit too long, but it did have some interesting twists
and turns but no real wow moments. For most of her story Green was nude with a
well-placed shadow on her privates.
There was more brutal violence in Sin City 2, some just
random. Sex was graphic and voyeuristic. Without plot context violence and sex become
pornographic.
There were more notable actors in Sin City 2. The anchor stars
were: Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
and Jessica Alba. Other big name stars had cameo roles: Lady Gaga, Christopher
Lloyd and Jeremy Piven, etc. Here adding a copious number of stars was more
bloating than effective film craft. The acting was so stylized it was a cliché.
