Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - 2014 - 5/10

The sequel earned acceptable ratings scores, but atrocious reviews.
What do critics know?
Perhaps they don’t like black n white.
Maybe they didn’t appreciate Noir.
Possibly they get turned off by florid dialogue.
Could be they wanted a more timely, more faithful sequel.
Five minutes in, I grasped I was watching an inferior clone of the original.
While not as bad as feared, this was flawed. Writing was fruity and stilted, action was contrived, the characters were even more caricatures than before. It reminded me of a parody and I decided to interpret it thus.
All the visual flourishes that punctuated the first film, are done to death here. Too bad.
Worse, resolutions on stories abrupt and poorly thought out.
Is this a decent Noir? No. This is a fifteen year old’s comic book mentality of that genre.
Acceptable time waster, also a downer.