"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2016)

Fortunately for me, I watched this film with absolutely zero expectations.
I missed all the original hype, and it was purely by 'chance' that a piece of music that I'd heard on youtube led me to Sucker Punch.
I fell in love with this film from the very beginning. I let myself be carried along on a wonderful visual and musical journey, a fantasy within a fantasy laced with layers of meaning that need not be analysed ... simply absorbed.
Sucker Punch is a work of Art that will surely become a cult classic once the haters have finished tearing it apart and gone away to find other films that give them what they want without 'sucker punching' their linear minds.
It's an unfortunate human trait that people feel the need to deride and destroy that which they don't understand. They can't simply say "I don't get it", or "it isn't for me". Somehow they feel threatened ... they feel that they should 'get it', and if they don't 'get it' it must be inherently bad.
And it's not as if there's much to 'get'. The film won't reveal 'the meaning of life' to you, although it might just reinforce the 'meaning' of your life. I guess that some people are looking so hard for deeper meaning that they miss the simple and obvious.
If you've never seen Sucker Punch, please give it a try, and as you watch it, simply let it play out before you without trying to analyse. And if it really doesn't hold any great 'meaning' for you ... so what? ... you've just been treated to a beautifully filmed fantasy with some of the coolest fight choreography/dancing you'll ever see!
"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything." (Scott Glenn, Sucker Punch)