Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mickey Rourke | ... | Marv | |
Jessica Alba | ... | Nancy | |
Josh Brolin | ... | Dwight | |
Joseph Gordon-Levitt | ... | Johnny | |
Rosario Dawson | ... | Gail | |
Bruce Willis | ... | Hartigan | |
Eva Green | ... | Ava | |
Powers Boothe | ... | Senator Roark | |
Dennis Haysbert | ... | Manute | |
Ray Liotta | ... | Joey | |
Christopher Meloni | ... | Mort | |
Jeremy Piven | ... | Bob | |
Christopher Lloyd | ... | Kroenig | |
Jaime King | ... | Goldie / Wendy | |
Juno Temple | ... | Sally |
Marv is unconscious on a highway surrounded by corpses. When he awakes, he has amnesia and tries to recall his last steps from the Kadie's saloon on the Saturday night. He recalls that he found four playboys burning a homeless man alive and defended the poor man. Marv hunts them down and kills the group. The cocky gambler Johnny hits jackpot in slot machines in the Kadie's saloon and invites the waitress Marcie to go with him to play poker game against the powerful Senator Roark. He wins the game and suffers the consequence of his arrogance. The private detective Dwight McCarthy is contacted by his former lover Ava Lord that asks to meet him at the Kadie's saloon. Ava asks him for forgiveness for leaving him to marry the wealthy Damian Lord. However her strong chauffeur Manute takes her home. Dwight snoops around Ava's house but is found and beaten by Manute and the bodyguards. When he returns home, Ava is waiting for him naked in the bed and seduces him again. Then she tells that ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sin City was one of my favorite movies of the 2000s. A fun, creative film noir cartoon with unique visuals and a style all its own. The first problem you run into with this sequel is that it offers nothing new. It's a stylistic retread of the first movie, only less impressive. The visuals copy the first movie but somehow seem cheaper. The makeup effects aren't as good either, with Marv's jaw easily twice the size of the last movie. The action is weaker, with no memorable sequences and a final showdown that is derivative of the first movie. The other big problem is that the writing is very poor this time and the stories don't flow well together. The Dwight story is lame. The Johnny story is pointless. The Nancy story is impossible to take seriously, especially the ghost parts. Sadly, this movie is boring, listless, and disjointed. It's a movie that didn't need to be made. Still, it's always nice to see Eva Green naked. That's something that never gets old.