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. Gambler Johnny (Joseph Gordon Levitt) arrives at Kadie's Saloon and gets into Senator Roark (Powers Boothe)'s poker game in the backroom. Johnny wins but Roark gets back at him knowing that he's his son. The ghost of Hartigan (Bruce Willis) watches over Nancy who wants revenge against Roark. 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. 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 (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). He wins the game and suffers the consequence of his arrogance.

The private detective Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) is contacted by his former lover Ava Lord (Eva Green) that asks to meet him at the Kadie's saloon. 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. 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 Damian and Manute torture her and soon she will be killed. Once again Manute takes Ava with him and hits Dwight that invites Marv to help him to rescue Ava. Damian denies the accusation but Dwight beats him to death while Marv tear Manute's eye out. But soon Dwight finds that he was lured by Ava that shoots him. 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.

The neo-noir "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" by Frank Miller is the sequel of the 2005 movie. 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.

Title (Brazil): "Sin City: A Dama Fatal" ("Sin City: The Fatal Dame")

I watched Sin City: A Dame to Kill For a few years ago. 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..

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, this has the same visuals of Sin City. 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?

The Dame to Kill for is Ava Lord (Eva Green) a former lover of Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) who some kind of sleazy photographer/private investigator. It is the best story but it is all overlong.

Some of the sequel revisits characters from the original such as Marv (Mickey Rourke) and Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba.)

The film is stylish bit it brings nothing new to the table. Rodriguez and Miller should had spent more time on the story.