Don't expect too much OR I probably didn't get it

Rating: 2/10 (28 March 2011)

I did because it came not from the director of 300, but from the director who gave us Watchmen. 300 was a visual delight and something radically new for its time. Watchmen was a different genre altogether, one of those rare movies which cannot be probably clubbed in any genre.
I went out thinking if Watchmen was something like 10 steps ahead of 300, then Sucker Punch would be really a new dimension. That thinking cost me. Yes, the visuals were spectacular, but all of them were in dream sequence,having no relativity to the original story. Yes, you can have artistic liberty, but then it should be like "Inception" where every scene, every detail is tagged to the story.
There was no twist, no suspense, nothing really 'unfolds'. The story is as predictable as it can be. Not much of a story anyway, just a abused girl trying to make her way out of a mental asylum where she has been put by her step father. Yes, thats it. And probably about 30 minutes of the entire movie is towards that. Rest of it, you could very well deduct and the 'movie' would still be there. Of course the only things missing would be what you would go for at the first place - the visuals.
Amazing visuals, mind blowing, it takes you out of the world at times, almost like a 6 or 7/ 10 compared to Avatar, but this is 2D. So really really spectacular. Cannot imagine any movie in 2D showing visuals this brilliant.
There is a message in the movie which was either too simple, (that is, it is you who write your own destiny) or I probably didn't get it. I mean the reason I liked Watchmen was for its message that sometimes it takes a lie to make amends, peace based on a lie because of the greater good. And when you get the message, you recall the film backward and if there were any questions you had, you get the answers and that gives you your money worth. That part was as I said either missing or I didn't get it.
Try ignoring the story and the screen play and you will enjoy it more. There was not a lot for acting scale and all the actors played to the roles.Overall, go with an open mind without any perception or prejudice and you will enjoy the sheer glamour the movie has. Its brutally fantastic. I gave it a 5 for the visual delights, its just that when you go for a movie, you want it to your heart's content. It didn't satisfy me at all and thereby I could at most give it a 5.