Review: Sucker Punch

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Genre: Action Fantasy
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Staring: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino
Released: March 25, 2011

THE GENERAL IDEA

Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.

THE GOOD

The visuals for this movie are right in the standard I would expect from Snyder, and with all the trailers and sneak peeks we are just not disappointed with that. We knew what style it was going to be in and it delievers just that. A lot of amazing visuals and some damned hot girls to boot.

That’s all I have.

THE BAD

This movie relies far too much on the sexual. The girls are borderline softcore porn and while normally I wouldn’t be opposed to any of this, there is less substance to most of the characters which brings the hope that this particular softcore porn would be justified with solid storytelling.

The film had SO MUCH potential to deliver a story with deep characters and paralell visuals. However, it falls short settling on an interesting start and a visual roller coaster ride. It was too busy showing you the goods that it forgot it had a plot or depth of character. To escape we must fight, and we must fight in lingerie. Does she escape? What is real? Do they make me care? No.

I was waiting for the big reveal that resolves everything, tying the surreal to the real - waiting for the “sucker punch”… then I looked at my ticket stub and it hit me.

OVERALL

Lingerie, action, insanely delicious visuals are just not enough to make this movie “worthwhile” but it is sexy. Get a set of the posters instead.

This troubles me, but only briefly. Snyder’s track record was pretty solid til now so I won’t hang him after one sloppy film. He has done really well in other works, but even the great ones trip up sometimes.

I give Sucker Punch a 3 out of 10 because those girls are damned hot.

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Dakota

Ok, guys are you serious? I loved this movie it got me all confused. I mean like, at the end I was like why did she close her eyes? o_o
http://nickymax007.blogspot.com nickymax

Well,this movie was highlt anticipated by me and movie lovers around d globe as zack snyder after 300 created lot of xpectation frm his side.I feel Sucker punch sucked
Art

I knew all along the film would be lacking in story and plot development. The whole movie was just an excuse to take all those really cool things that men love, throw them into a big pot, bring it to a boil, and hurl it on the theater patrons. Gritty World War 2 scenarios, nazis, big robots, dragons, giant samurais and of course sexy women in skimpy outfits. Do we still wanna see it? Sure! its 2 hours of action. But we won’t be going for the Oscar performances.
Courtney

I liked it. It was really sad to me. The music u have to admit was epic beyond compare…Emily Browning can sing like an angel :)
Ryan

I felt Sucker Punched after I left — and sucker being a pun, for the word should also be used in the “you went to see that? Sucker….” sense.

There really wasn’t a story there — just a premise. It was an interesting premise, but that only makes the fact that it wasn’t developed all the more damning. There was nothing interesting about any of the girls, no depth to *any* of their characters. The action and graphics were anticlimactic, used poorly and, honestly, not up to par with what I’d expect from a Snyder film. The first 3/4 of the movie, with almost no dialog and moving with no rhyme or reason, felt more like an over-extended, high-priced music video — with bad music — than it did a movie.

By the time anything actually happened, toward the end, it was too late for the film to be redeemed. Meanwhile, I’m actually shocked I was able to sit through the whole thing. My friend was huffing and puffing throughout the whole thing, obviously bored out of his mind, and when I whispered if he wanted to leave, he said no (he hated it, too, but didn’t want to leave out of principal), which bitterly disappointed me… even if usually I don’t like to leave theaters out of principal. I’ve just never been to see a movie that tedious and boring before. Worst. Movie. Ever.

The sad thing is I really wanted to love it — who doesn’t love a good revenge tale? — and normally I like Girl Power films. I didn’t actually think the movie would be all that good — but at least I thought it would be so bad it was good. It wasn’t even that. No lines to laugh at. No campiness. Just bad — in the worst possible way: boring.

Seriously — I find it pretty hard to hate a movie that much. I’ve found redeeming qualities in everything from Daredevil to Superman Returns to the MFing Last Airbender (!!), but there was *nothing* redeemable about this movie. It was just horrible in every sense of the word. Snyder should be ashamed.
Jeremy K.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and it was exactly, if not a little more, than I was expecting. My girl loved it, and after words was pen pointing which character she and several coworkers most closely would most relate to. And no, she is not in the slightest bit dry as people have found the characters to be. Yes, we are both in the over the age of thirty crowd. To each their own, though. I was a bit worried after reading all the bad reviews, so glad I did not listen to them and went to see it regardless. Next up, Hanna! Can that movie come out already?
- Ryan
  
  Honest question. How can you and your girl decide which character she and her friends most relate to? They had absolutely, positively no character development, save maybe Sweet P’s sister, and only Sweet P, her sister and the main character had anything even resembling any kind of back story at all (and very little at that). There was just nothing substantial to this film at all. I can’t possibly get how anyone could be enthusiastic about it. As you say, to each their own, I guess… but I honestly am curious.
  - Jeremy K.
    
    *yawn* the repetition of the no oh-noze-no-character-development continues. Heaven forbid that because one group of people can’t get anything out of something, that another group just might. Well, since you asked, my girl relates to the survivor. As she too has been through hell and back, and during that time she saw people close to her not make it out of that hell where she has been a lonely survivor. Then to be blessed by somebody that goes out of their way to help her without concern of where she came from… another thing she has experienced. Believe it or not, it is possible to get something out of a character that’s back story has not been presented. Kind of like reality… how often do you come along people in your life that you do not know their back story, yet you still manage to get to know somewhat who they are with just a little time spent with them? Sure, we don’t get a back story for most of the characters, but we get a pretty good idea of what they are like through their actions and involvement in the movie in the little time we get with them.
- 420BAND
  
  Jeremy K’s getting me pumped to see this even after the reviews came back stale. (Thirty somethings rule!)
  - Jeremy K.
    
    lol!

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