One in the eye.

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 2011)

My twelve year old son enjoyed the babes, Air Bender and computer game references, but I enjoyed the poking in the eye, the puncturing of frontal brain lobe of the Seat of Consciousness of all those Western and Eastern males who had become blinded and degenerated into hungry dogs, those who pay to ogle women; and those women rebelling from such a mind-prisons, burka'd or otherwise.
You the viewer, are the real dreamer in the unreal world - A plot probably discarded as too complicated for the average American so the flat ending of escape was offered instead. Too many corporate hands prevented this becoming a masterpiece of satire in our time.
The CGI battles for survival wowed with movie references but became more labored with a lack of imagination as they went on.
I loved the unsettling inaccuracy of mirrors and the detachment created by use of heavy makeup hiding the personalities within, the objectification naming, the deliberate unsexyness of the girls, the erotic dance we never saw - because it wasn't there - normal people don't see people as sex-objects - geddit?
Of all the heads of males and females that had already received the probe of the Sucker Punch.
I shed a tear of shame for womankind at the end of the film; while my boy wanted a wall poster of Baby Doll leaping above a ball of fire. Amazon here we come.