Creative Eyecandy on Fire

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2011)

Sucker Punch smacks you down!
This movie is a softly violent blend of Kill Bill and Inception with a touch of Lord of the Rings, Terminator and Mortal Kombat thrown in for good measure. Unlike Inception, this movie succeeds because it isn't didactically trying to make you buy into the premise, it just lays out the story, and let's you decide what might or might not be going on.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the creative mix of both the action dream sequences, and to a lesser degree the character development. There is much subtlety crafted into this plot and the main character's subjugations and aspirations.
If I have one gripe, the use of sepia and dark grayscale tones throughout the movie is overused. This was obviously the film maker's intent to bring out color when it does appear, as in the dragonfire, alas I feel true color could have been used to more advantage, so long as it didn't rise to the over color saturation movies like Avatar fell prey to.
Absolutely recommended if you like intense kung fu surreality flicks!