Yikes!

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2014)

A toxic blend of music video and video game set the tone for this juvenile bore, about a girl thrown in a mental institution and retreats into her mind - which happens to be the mind of a 12 year old boy who loves overblown CG action and hot girls in minimal, tight clothing. Zack Synder made a colossal miscalculation directing this picture. It's many steps backward from his previous film Watchmen and he seems proud of Sucker Punch's lack of substance so he can indulge his love of video game fetishistic action. Sucker Punch is as light as a feather -- it's a couple of disconnected cartoon action sequences bookended with a few scenes at a mental institution. This is the kind of indulgent train wreck that can derail careers and since Synder came away from this stinker with his career intact, I can only hope he got this crap out of his system and will never repeat the mistakes he made with Sucker Punch.