Call me a Sucker...

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2011)

The movie features some of the most brilliant CGI I have seen since making people look semi-animated became cool. Great cinematic, including long periods without speaking, built up suspense making the 'real world' of the movie very dark and ominous, and let you know from the offset that this was not going to leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Each imagination world Baby Doll and her companions entered, however, was as vivid as the last, giving the movie a video- game feel. The weaving in an out of delusions allowed them to create a different world portraying some of the most used gaming backdrops: a nightclub, modern war trenches, a siege of a Medieval castle, and a super spy mission. Each world featured its own kick-ass action scene supported by a killer soundtrack.
Instead of developing its own score, which I don't think would have worked well with the different levels of film, the soundtrack consisted of adapted versions of hit songs (including White Rabbits and Sweat Dreams) which synced up really well with each scene and added to the video-game aura of each of the fantasy sequences. Think of what Donnie Darko did with 'Mad World' except instead of using it ever few minutes, they picked one that worked on a scene by scene basis.
It turns out that the long periods without talking and the over the top action scenes were to cover up that no one in the movie really had anything to say, and when they did either sounded like coming out of fortune cookie or was just downright dumb (if those are two different things). One of the main characters was literally crying more than she spoke, and frankly for good reason. The plot was pretty straight forward and you never really got into it, turning the parts where they are trying to make things make sense as just a way to get from one action sequence to the next. A few things didn't make too much sense at the end, but you wont really care because the storyline was pretty dull and ended frustratingly and you kinda realize that maybe Baby Doll was in an asylum for good reason.
I was definitely a bit over optimistic thinking that Sucker Punch (2011) would essentially be 300 part duex with 5 semi-naked girls instead of a semi-naked Gerard Butler, and hoards Ninja-Robot and Nazi-Dragons instead of hoards of disturbing deformed Persians. If there was one thing I regret its not seeing this in theaters. Seeing the graphics on the big screen with surround sound would have made the viewing experience leaps and bounds better.