A down-and-out sleazy gumshoe detective with a soft spot for the ladies, he gets lured into an even more dangerous world by an old flame that’s pure evil and sex (is there really any other kind in noir?): Ava Lord. Watch Sin City: A Dame to Kill For on AmazonĪs the subtitle of this past weekend’s sequel, it picks up on Dwight pre-plastic surgery when he looks an awful lot like Josh Brolin. In a game of vengeance and snow-filled creepiness, Hartigan saves Nancy first from Junior when he puts the Yellow Bastard in the ground permanently, and then from his undoubtedly enraged senator daddy when Hartigan puts a bullet in his own head. Turning out to be a genetically mutated Junior (Nick Stahl), who went head-to-toe blonde in order to regain his virility, the pervert discovers along with the hero cop a shocking truth: the daughter Hartigan always wanted is one that he will definitely try to resist wanting any further, because Nancy has grown up to be Jessica Alba. It’s of course a trap, and Nancy is fine ( very fine) until a released Hartigan leads the titular Yellow Bastard right to her.

The reason? He had to protect Nancy, who had been writing to him under a pseudonym for the intervening near-decade… until she wasn’t. Indeed, Bob is the guy that takes Hartigan back into Basin City after his stint in prison, which would have continued indefinitely if he hadn’t admitted to the child rapist charges he’d been accused of. This can be deduced for several reasons, but most notably because of the appearance of old Bob, who shows up early in this second half of “That Yellow Bastard” and will appear again in the next adventure in such a way that ensures this came first. Yep, despite the eight-year gap and placing this portion of the story as the climax of the 2005 Sin City film, it would appear that this narrative is the next immediate event to occur in the Sin City mythos.

Or so, Roark and Hartigan both thought… That Yellow Bastard Part 2 Senator Roark (Powers Boothe) has revenge for his comatose son when he fixes John Hartigan’s heart up real good so that he can take the rap for his son’s pedophilic tendencies and get locked away for the rest of his life. Unfortunately for Hartigan, being shot nearly half a dozen times by his partner Bob (Michael Madsen) is only the beginning of his torment. Despite it being his last day on the police force, and with a bum ticker to boot, Hartigan ( Bruce Willis) proves he is worth a damn when he unarms Junior of his weapons (both of them) and saves a young girl’s life.

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