Review of Sucker Punch (2011) by Dokalu — 23 Jun 2015

This isn't the terrible movie most people think. It's just not really excellent. What I like about it are the deeper elements of the story, how some things (most of the film) aren't as obvious as everyone expects them to be. It's not so easy to understand the first time, and it makes you think about it after it ends. This is very well handled; and it's very cool how people can come out with a lot of different theories about why everything happened the way it did and how none of them are wrong.

Sadly, there are other not so pleasant things that come along with the film, like the mediocre-good acting, the unnecessarily accelerated character development, some exaggerated scenes, the fact that in the action sequences our character can't die or at least we don't worry about it, and the sometimes dumb script.

Still, it's a cool psychological action thriller that you are going to enjoy if you really try to understand it, and can make you think about it long after it's finished, as long as you allow it to do it.