Sucker Punch (2011)

Rating: 1/10 (13 December 2011)

An absolute incompetent mess. I was so excited for this, and it just let me down. Snyder should never again try and fart and original idea from his brain. How could you mess up sexy girls, dragons, robots, and samurai warriors with chain-guns. This film looked exciting and fun, and I wasn't expecting anything more than that. The film opens with a music video montage, of what should be the emotionally defining moment. Instead we get a terrible cover of "Sweet Dreams", a song choice with all the subtlety of a fat man at the gym. We see the evil stepfather, who is so evil, he straightens his tie after his wife dies and gives a seedy smile. He may as well just say "YES! Now my wife is dead I can rape my stepdaughters." He does the tie thing not once, but twice. After Snyder skips over what should be important character development, we are thrust into a computer game dream sequence where the "plot" is unveiled. Basically, Babydoll needs 5 items to escape. Each item can be found in a different fantasy/level. These action scenes are so sudden that they have no tension. I don't care about these girls because you haven't introduced us. The action scenes look dumb and fun, but are played out in all seriousness. Snyder tries to mix fun action with a story about mentally and sexually abused girls.This is all done in complete earnest. Like an exploitation film that wants to be taken seriously. As I watched the movie I was simply critiquing it. I even managed to enjoy X-Men The Last Stand and Spider-Man 3 whilst I was watching them. This movie just flat out abused me without the common courtesy of having anything going for it. Sucker Punch cold have been so much more, but the lack of fluidity between scenes, and the feeling that Snyder thinks this might be important, was all a bit too much.