Robert Rodriguez approaches the material with the same enthusiastic vision that pulses off the screen, each image tweaked for maximum drama.

That is not really the case now as 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' is more of the same, basically, only now in 3-D, which adds some cool effects but it's not really necessary.

Some of the vignettes held together better than others, but overall, it was hugely entertaining, an exercise in style that pushed the envelope as hard as it could. The voiceovers, weary and dispirited, came from the James M. Mainly black-and-white, with red lips or green eyes shining out of the monochrome, the film looked like a noir on acid, or a grisly crime photo by Weegee, overexposed until black and white are reversed. 'Sin City' was all gleaming car grilles and seedy bars and tortured men lurching their way through the grim streets, casting gigantic shadows. The style was lifted right out of Frank Miller's books almost shot for shot in some cases the books used as a storyboard. Language isn't quite as strong, but there is a use of 'f-k' and a few uses of 's-t.' A minor character is shown doing drugs, and a major character is shown drinking excessively, while most of the characters smoke cigarettes or cigars.It's been nine years since the release of ' Sin City,' a collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, with its dark crime-novel heart, surreal visual style and some chewy performances by a cast game to aim for the cheap seats. One female character is naked in several scenes (breasts and bottom), and there's other partial nudity. Sex is usually shown as hard and angry, with lots of thrusting (and men are usually cheating on their wives). Eyes are gouged out, limbs are chopped off, and people are shot in the face.

Characters are wounded and killed by everything from hard punches and bullets to swords, arrows, and shurikens. Though the movie is filmed in stylized black and white and the blood mostly appears as pure white, it's still accompanied by a sickly spattering sound as characters are shot or dismembered. Parents need to know that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is the sequel to 2005's Sin City, and - like that film - it's insanely violent, with lots of rough sex and nudity.

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