Review of Sucker Punch (2011) by Travis S — 08 Jul 2013

This movie is just plain awful. Such an awful mess of razzle dazzle CGI video game porn, with Scott Glenn showing up for no explained reason. It's elements of Moulin Rouge, The Matrix, Chicago, Inception all bashed together into one cinematic titan of a mess.

It's Inception for dumb people because the movie is dumb. Nothing is explained and nothing makes any sense, because the movie doesn't even understand what it's showing. The only thing this film is about is rape, and the only way to fight rape is by sexy dancing.

Sucker Punch goes to prove that Zack Snyder does not know how to connect to a female audience, he's got the male audience down, but he has no clue how to relate to a feminine audience. Sucker Punch was suppose to be about female empower, but fails scene after scene, and line after line.

Sucker Punch is a video game within a music video! Your watching someone play a video game, which is not at all engaging here. With a new level of full out non-sense action. Trying to explain and figure out this film is a headache all on it's own.

20 year old Babydoll is thrown into a mental institute by her step-father after he kills and probably rapes Babydoll's sister. Once in this institute of all women, which by night is a nightclub of stripping and prostitution.

Babydoll plans to escape before she is given up to the high roller, who turns out to be Jon Hamm. She convinces some other girls to help her escape, to avoid being given up to Jon Hamm. How awful, the awful looking Jon Hamm.

Couldn't they make the high roller more terrible looking. These girls needing to obtain a map, fire, a key, a knife, and a mystery object. What happens when Babydoll dances, which we never see, people enter into a bizarre trance of a video like world.

She enters into this dream world where Scott Glenn gives the girls their mission and they fight samurais, WWI mechanical german soldiers, future robots, and dragons. Outside the dream world, while Babydoll dances, the girls snatch the item they need, which is not at all difficult to steal.

It's like a child's imaginative game, where a kid is trying to steal a baseball from their dad's desk but to get to it they must cross hot lava, fight a three-headed dragon, and escape the exploding volcano.

Sucker Punch is a rare film where I could careless about the action scenes cause we don't know why we have them to begin with. Honestly, I would've preferred seeing Babydoll's dancing rather than the mindless action scenes, but that's something we are not permitted to see.

This movie is awful and thinking about it could cause a brain aneurysm. If you really want to witness a tragic mess of storytelling, I dare you to see Sucker Punch, but with this dare comes a lot of warnings, mixed in with some rape and more sexy dancing.