The whole experience feels grindingly pointless, especially if you’ve already seen Sin City. RELATED: 'So You Think You Can Dance' Recap: Hip-Hop Wedding, Heavy Metal Divorce
That may be where the biggest problem lies. The first Sin City drew almost exclusively from Miller’s comics, framing its narrative around three of his stories this one adapts only one of his illustrated tales (the titular “A Dame to Kill For”) and adds a lot of original material, also written by Miller. The sequel is so demonstrably similar: over-the-top, thuddingly obvious narration throughout exaggerated action that sees people constantly thrown through windows, blasted apart with guns and dismembered with samurai swords faint homage to the great ‘40s noir films mixed with thick, sludgy, violent pulp nonsense to amp the violence and sex to 11 every time.
I was never a huge fan of the 2005 Sin City, even as a college student who didn’t know any better, but I know I didn’t walk out of the theater feeling as nasty as I did with A Dame to Kill For. Walking out of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, I kept coming back to the same question: was the first Sin City really that bad? It’s been years since I saw Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s first adaptation of Miller’s pulpy noir comics, which came out in 2005 and used green-screen technology to render his panels as faithfully as possible and unite a starry cast without them ever having to even meet on set.
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