Enjoyable if not strange and slightly confusing...

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2012)

***This review contains spoilers***
Sucker Punch. The main reason I was waiting for this film to release was that one of my favourite bands was supposed to have a song on its soundtrack...which it didn't in the end.
From the start, I went into this with high hopes, the trailer looked great. Not your usual film. Charlies Angels meets One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. It is strange and if you miss the beginning, you will get lost and confused.
Emily Browning played the main role of Babydoll. A girl who accidentally killed her own sister while trying to kill her abusive father. Placed in a sanitarium, she overhears that she is to be lobotomized. This is where it gets...confusing and strange. In her head, there are 3 worlds. Reality, a private strip club and a fantasy war zone. In order to escape the hospital, she retreats into these alternate realities in her mind to help. She is helped by 4 friends, also inmates in the sanitarium. Abbie Cornish(Sweat Pea), Jena Malone(Rocket), Vanessa Hudgens(Blondie) and Jamie Chung(Amber). All 4 fairly well established in TV and film. The acting of all 5 of these actors was good. Especially that of Emily Browning.
The Fight scenes are great. Special Effects also great. I have never seen a film like this before, and that is a good thing. Many films these days are simply rebooting or remaking old films because they can't think of anything that has not already been done. This film is New. Original. Unique. Took some guts to spend so much money on a project like this, so well done to them.
To end it, although for some this film may be just too strange and confusing, it is still well worth a watch.