It had all the weapons it needed, so why didn't it use them!!!

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2011)

" I feel like the little boy, sitting in the corner of the sandbox, watching everybody else getting to play with his toys. "
This for me sums up Sucker Punch, in many ways it's like Zach Snyders playing out all his favourite video game fantasies contrived from dungeon and dragons, lord of the rings, district 9, inglorious bastards, and we have to just sit and watch, when there is no story to tell, also were not allowed to play.
I could totally rip Sucker Punch apart, just by going into the lack of story and the inability to carry the plot forward in any great length and various other fatal flaws but strangely something is stopping me. I'll be kind and highlight it's spectacular action sequences, some brilliant costumes and spot on scenery, good enough to rival anything I've ever seen, and it's amazing soundtrack which fits in among the chaos perfectly. Never has a film brought out the Jeckyll and Hyde more in me, I'm torn, but ultimately I can't shake the fact that at it's core Sucker Punch is a total mess and could have been oh so special.
Basically Sucker Punch is like THE food fight of all food fights, it's messy, totally unnecessary buts it's quite good fun.