You won't be prepared.

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2011)

Video game films are really popular nowadays. From Silent Hill, to Doom, to the slew of Resident Evil films there is big money in films that are based on video games or graphic novels, such as The Spirit or 300. Sucker Punch isn't based on a video game, and there's no graphic novel that shares its name, though there probably should be, and probably will be after someone sees the film and decides to create one, but it is done with the same style as these films. There's lots of fighting, and monsters and robots and other things usually saved for the video game.
Baby Doll (Australian born actress Emily Browning) is locked away against her will, but her will isn't broken. She meets Rocket (Jena Malone), Rocket's sister, Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens) and Amber (Jamie Chung) and they band together to escape their prison, and along with it the evil Blue (Oscar Isaac) and Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino), before the High Roller (Jon Hamm) comes for Baby Doll.
This is a fascinating film. The opening is one of the best you will ever see. Baby Doll kills her little sister by accident and is them put in a mental institution by her step father, but then everything changes. It's no longer a mental institution, it's a brothel. And the inmates are now dancers and "working girls" at the brothel. This is the world you find yourself in. It goes further than that too as Baby Doll is forced to dance she imagines a world of evil Nazi robots and trolls as she and the others battle to get items to survive this world they've been trapped in. It's all pretty surreal, but beautiful to behold. Zach Snyder, the director, creates an amazing world, within a world, within a world, to enthrall us all with a visual epic beyond anything we've seen before.
The acting by everyone involved is good. Emily Browning's Baby Doll is strong and self reliant, yet vulnerable and weak all at the same time, giving the character many layers. The stand out performances are from Oscar Isaac as the sleazy Blue and Carla Gugino's Madam Gorski. Blue is creepy and slimy and exactly the kind of person you love to hate. Isaac oozes his way through the performance from the first moment you meet him to the moment he's dragged away. Gugino's Madam Gorski is a bad, good guy. She's a woman that seems to be in control, but is as trapped as the girls she's meant to control. She plays the two sides of the character with complete believability. It must be said, however, that the film looses steam a little in the middle. After the 50 robot has been killed and the same shot is used again it gets a little boring, but then picks up again for the end. It would have been nice to see something a little different in the middle.
All in all this is a film for those that love the video game style of film, and there a lot of you out there. It's a feast for the eyes, both the girls and the shots, and action junkies will love it.

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