Sucker Punch (2011)

So much average

Sadly Over-hyped

An Exercise In Nonsense

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Despite having a bad critical and commercial success, this is still one of my favorite Zach Snyner film. The others are Dawn of the Dead, The 300 and The Watchmen. I if the Japanese made yhis film, this will be a classic. But since Hollywood critics are harsher to Hollywood made films, they negatively review this.

There are a lot of ways to describe this flick: surreal grindhouse, Gothic music video, video game movie, prison girl film, Heavy Metal meets LOTR etc. The movie for the most part was 5 stars. I didn't like the ending as they attempted to make a statement when none was needed. Baby Doll's mother dies. The step-dad was left out of the will so he kills Baby doll's sister and blames her during a goth version of "Sweet Dreams" (Annie Lennox). Baby Doll is committed to the Lennox asylum in Brattleboro, Vt. She is supposed to get a lobotomy in 5 days, during which she plans an escape.The asylum has a stage where the girls perform. Baby Doll has a dance which mesmerizes people, a dance, we the audience never get to see. While Baby Doll dances she goes into a trance or dream world where she imagines she is battling all kinds of creatures (zombies, orcs etc). This is all done to a great soundtrack and computer graphics. In this aspect, the movie reminded me of "Heavy Metal", a series of stories loosely connected by a plot. This actually works well, unfortunately when the movie deviates from it, it doesn't work at all. During the first dance Baby Doll is told to get certain objects so she can escape. During her subsequent dances she entrances the males in the audience while her fellow inmates steal the item they need. The item they steal relates to the surreal imagination of Baby Doll.No nudity, no sex, and the language was acceptable. Girls run around in short skirts with tight black hip boots. This is this generation's "Heavy Metal" movie, one that would be best watched on the big screen at a midnight showing

I really want to rate this movie ten out of ten although I know it definitely doesn't deserve it. But I wanna... For quite some time I was thinking how to write smart and competent review and I've got nothing so far. I can not hook you by short summary without spoiler risks. To abstract some deep thoughtful philosophy out of it I really don't want to even try. Even if there are some I didn't notice them. This movie is simply pure fun of epic proportions. There are some artistic cadres, trippy weird amazing and jaw dropping mindfaks, there's drama and pathetic, there's action and CGI intemperance, sanatorium and whorehouse, little bit of Kill Bill and a bit of Hobbit, alternative history, train hijacking, samurai and trench battles against Germans, incompatible epochs mixed in same scenes, there's everything and everything is awesome. To lure mail audience, there's bunch of hot girls in sexy battle outfits, armed to teeth with swords and machine guns, who, in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Charlie's Angels and Matrix style, jump out of WWII airplane on running trains and medieval castles to butcher and riddle everything from people to zombies, robots, orcs, and eventually dragons. Complete madness. Zack Snyder is the king.I do not like Emily Browning in leading role (my only objection to this movie), but Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone and divine Carla Gugino nailed it with both performances and looks.9/10

SPOILER ALERTSUCKER PUNCH - aptly named when you realize writer/director Zak Snyder suckered you into paying $15 based on an epic trailer made entirely of THINGS A CHARACTER DREAMS IN THE MOVIE. This is an incredible innovation scamming movie goers. Why doesn't everyone who doesn't have a compelling screenplay have their main character dream 2 minutes of unconnected, cool looking action that doesn't actually happen in the story line, then make a trailer out of it? Batman v. Superman had the same crap trick (Batman desert fight scene) but to a lesser extent. At least Michael Bay makes an attempt at cramming the incoherent action from the trailer into the story.Can't wait for Notebook 2, wherein the main character has an epic 2 minute dream styled after BladeRunner vs. Citizen Kane vs. The Color Purple that ends of being 100% of the trailer, having nothing to do with the 98% of the movie about a stationary store.