Josh Brolin as Dwight. |
Like the first movie, this movie has a sub-story device that places each story out of order so I'm just going to simply give you the synopsis of the story as simply as possible.
Marv (Mickey Rourke) is thrown at the curb from a vehicle and he is amnesiac from the experience. He cannot remember what has happened in the previous night as he recalls walking in Basin City where he was born and raised and he goes to a strip club at Kadie's glancing at Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba). He also witnesses four college boys harassing a guy by dousing him with gas. You may not want to know what happens to those boys. Ummm, maybe you do.
Another story occurs when a drifter named Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to play poker against Senator Roark (Powers Boothe). At first, he is successful at playing poker by winning with a great hand, but a cop warns him that he cannot protect Johnny from Roark anymore. As Roark's goons and himself beat Johnny up severely, the renegade drifter vows revenge against him.
Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) gets a call from a seductive dame named Ava Lord (Eva Green) that he does not want to deal with again. He meets her at Kadie's and Ava begs for forgiveness and protection against her husband, Damien (Marton Csokas, he always plays a villain). He gets hooked again as Ava kisses him and Manute (Dennis Haysbert) threatens him and Dwight forgives her indifferently until trouble stirs up as Dwight has rough sex with Ava and Manute brutally beats him up. Dwight, with the help of Marv and Gale (Rosario Dawson), retaliates against Manute and Damien.
The last story occurs with Nancy desperate on revenge against Senator Roark when he visits the grave of the former protector, John Hartigan (Bruce Willis). She has hallucinations that Hartigan is saying that he will never leave her and not swear revenge against Roark. That's it.
Jessica Alba as Nancy. |
Eva Green has been in a ridiculous controversy with the MPAA as her advertised poster for the movie was her in a transparent white robe. What's the big deal? Is a head being chopped off being shown on the poster as controversial as one woman in a white robe? In my opinion, I don't think so. But, besides that, her performance is fantastic. It's been an interesting year pulling off good work at bad movies showing her different side in her career. Now, it's more shocking that she does not get naked in a movie. Haha. Brolin's fine, Mickey Rourke's all right, Powers Boothe is captivating as the villain again, and Gordon-Levitt does what he can. The rest of the cast does not do anything special.
The script is just hammered with visual subtlety and audacious colors that the story is almost entirely not there. It looks fine, but we need to care about what's going on with the characters and the story within. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller need to watch his films again to brainstorm an original story with interesting characters. Take a look at Desperado, the first Spy Kids film and the first Sin City. It's another disappointing sequel in the canon of sequels this year.
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