I saw SIN CITY 2! I took a while longer to review this movie because I wasn't sure what to think of it. On the plus side, Robert Rodriguez really did a good job adapting Frank Miller's ultra gritty, hyper stylized, noir-ish graphic novel to the big screen. The acting was great too and it brought in some of the biggest names in the game to do the work. I think the editing and the stories themselves are what made me pause in this movie. For one thing, all the stories are out of order, even in context to the first Sin City film. Some stories occur before, some after and some exist on an alternate timeline. This can be very confusing if you're looking for things to sync up with the first film so it's best that you just consider this movie it's own thing. Another off thing about this movie is it's flow. In the first sin city, although it was comprised of a few different stories, it all fit together. The pace was even and it left you with a good feeling overall. This movie, on the other hand, has a lot of loose strings in it. The stories have a lot of extraneous characters and more than once I found myself saying, "hmm...well that went nowhere." All in all, this movie really is better than it appears. I'm sure that if it were cobbled together with the first film somehow it would be better or if this were a series of small internet shorts it would be exceptional, but as it stands in movie form, it just feels eating a four course meal of good food that doesn't go together like spaghetti & sushi or ice cream and collard greens. In the end it's great but it's just so thoroughly disorganized and for a movie 9 years in the making, it's just not acceptable. Still, I'll give Sin City a 3...out of 5.
I saw SIN CITY 2! I took a while longer to review this movie because I wasn't sure what to think of it. On the plus side, Robert Rodriguez really did a good job adapting Frank Miller's ultra gritty, hyper stylized, noir-ish graphic novel to the big screen. The acting was great too and it brought in some of the biggest names in the game to do the work. I think the editing and the stories themselves are what made me pause in this movie. For one thing, all the stories are out of order, even in context to the first Sin City film. Some stories occur before, some after and some exist on an alternate timeline. This can be very confusing if you're looking for things to sync up with the first film so it's best that you just consider this movie it's own thing. Another off thing about this movie is it's flow. In the first sin city, although it was comprised of a few different stories, it all fit together. The pace was even and it left you with a good feeling overall. This movie, on the other hand, has a lot of loose strings in it. The stories have a lot of extraneous characters and more than once I found myself saying, "hmm...well that went nowhere." All in all, this movie really is better than it appears. I'm sure that if it were cobbled together with the first film somehow it would be better or if this were a series of small internet shorts it would be exceptional, but as it stands in movie form, it just feels eating a four course meal of good food that doesn't go together like spaghetti & sushi or ice cream and collard greens. In the end it's great but it's just so thoroughly disorganized and for a movie 9 years in the making, it's just not acceptable. Still, I'll give Sin City a 3...out of 5.
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