A sucker punch to your common sense....

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2011)

This is Zack's 2nd rotten movie ,the first being the one about the owls..As a big fan of the director i was excited to see the movie and decided to wait for the extended cut..but i was disappointed with the whole movie.... Zack instead of making a straight-forward movie about a girl trying to escape a mental institute,he decided to take a twisted approach to the whole plot and made it more action oriented mixed with many unwanted twists.... The plot started to become more and more mundane just after the scene where baby-doll is enrolled in the institute.. I loved Zack's style,especially his trademark slow-mo and closeups but the multiple and repetitive action scenes drained the interest in those effects from me.... In my opinion,the movie would have been wonderful if Zack ignored all the alternative worlds and just made a movie on baby-doll and friends trying to escape the institute normally(shawshank/prison break style).. Acting was average on the whole,i liked Jena Malone.Carla seemed to go over the top with her accent....the character 'blue' was well acted.... Action scenes were all good but their repetitive use spoiled the impact....i read somewhere that Zack didn want the action scenes to look like a video game but i guess he failed,since they looked nothing other than video games....
Before cing sucker-punch i was excited 4 Zack's superman ,but after the whole mess of this movie,I'm having second thoughts....