Sucker Punched

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2011)

The best thing I can say about this movie is that it made me appreciate "300" & "Watchmen" that much more. ("Watchmen" is a criminally under-rated movie. It is rates w/ "The Dark Knight" &"The Crow" as maybe the best movie based on a graphic novel ever.)
Zack Snyder is a victim of his own talent here. He present us --again-- with stunning visuals, but they don't add up to anything. His "women in peril" plot seems tired. Most critically I didn't care about any of the characters. The acting is rather by rote. I felt sorry for talents like Jena Malone & Carla Gugino for being stuck inside this candy coated empty shell. You could almost feel Snyder pulling back from delivering a knockout blow in order to deliver a PG-13 rating, but I don't think movie would've have benefited from that added freedom because it seemed so pointless.
It may prove to be the biggest disappointment of the year in cinema.