A Dumb Movie Disguised As A Smart Movie

Rating: 3/10 (25 November 2012)

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that a ton of people are making this out to be a great movie simply because they couldn't understand it, and they feel to do otherwise would be an admission of ignorance. Don't worry, it's not you...
Sucker Punch is a convoluted mess, that suffers critically from an identity crisis.
But, who to blame? Is it the writer's for trying to pack too much "story" into a 2 hour limit? Was it the person who was too dumb to realize that you can't have a movie that deals with this many adult subjects and fit it into a PG13 shell without editing it to bits? Throw in sub-par acting, and I'm leaning towards "all of the above".
Keep in mind I only saw the theatrical version (the version THEY chose to present)...
I'm going to try to be brief and just note the major flaws in the movie.
The movie is overly vague. They were going for the effect at the end of Inception where it was really up to you to interpret the events the way you like. But asking the audience to connect the dots how they like ONLY works if the position that the dots are in makes at least some sense. These dots are scattered all over the place causing inconsistent underdeveloped, extremely one dimensional characters across the board.
The BabyGirl killing (or thinking that she did) her sister scene makes no sense at all. This is the foundatition to the whole movie, and even after reading other reviews I still don't know what happened. All I know is that it doesn't make any sense for that bullet to have killed her sister in that way. Or for her to even have taken only one shot and then bypass her dad to check on her sister who was ALREADY DEAD. How exactly was a labotomy going to fix this anyway? Labatomies only turn you into a veggie if they go wrong. That's a real medical procedure, why would he be counting on that to erase her memory?
2. I understand that it doesn't make sense to make a fighting movie that's rated R because all those teeens that make up that demo count for a lot of dollars. But then you shouldn't of made a movie with such adult themes. Because what ended up happening is that they couldn't show anything adult like, and instead the movie ended up being nothing but vague subtext. Was it even an actual whore house or not?
3. You can't have a bunch of things that make no sense, and then say it's OK because she was dreaming. That's a cop out. She really mesmerizes people so much with her dancing that they completely lose touch with reality? Really? That was an awful idea. More awful is that you never see her actually dance. Instead, they use this as a dumb excuse to try and reel in a young audience with drawn out fight scenes. Time that should be spent developing characters. Don't get me wrong, the fight scenes look fun. But they are predictable as heck. Even the one that included the curveball of her friend dying was telegraphed horribly.
Everyone talking about courage and what not. How? She had a mental break down and instead of getting it together and getting out of the situation she stabbed a dude, started a fire, and helped someone escape all while out of touch with reality. Bleu the orderlies friends turning on him and saying "let's stop hurting girls" was retarded also. Way to be consistent. They've been doing that for how long and all the sudden decide that they are gonna snitch on him as if he wont tell on them right back?
I feel like I'm ranting... but seriously, movies like this frustrate me. Sucker Punch needs to get off of it's high horse and realize that there's nothing impressive about leaving a million holes in a story and then asking the audience to fill in all of them for you.