Exciting and surprisingly dark and serious fusion genre movie

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2019)

This exciting and surprisingly dark and serious fusion genre contains sparkling and engaging elements of several popular movies. There is the set stark retro design and plot flavor of Sin City (2005), the elegant sadistic gender dominance of Point of No Return (1993), the fantasy images of Big Trouble In Little China (1986), the female warrior of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the dazzling effects of Inception (2010), and the moral taste of Cube Zero (2004). This is a feminine version of Brazil (1985) that captures the humanity and empathy of their female existence along with the imaginative interactive bonding of superheroes against a male crafted universe. The movie is both melancholy and hopeful at the same time but with several gyrating twists. Sucker Punch deserves its own place in filmy history for its female vision and self-empowerment and yet there is also an undercurrent of sacrifice and a sorority of sisters of sorts.