Review of Sucker Punch (2011) by Joanderson — 08 Apr 2011

Before the movie I had those negative reviews from the critics in the back of my mind, and I found that they weren't accurate at all. Right from the start of the movie to the end, I didn't look around, didn't talk and really tried to engage myself into it, and I came out of the theatres amazed and inspired.

I couldn't figure out how some reviews said it was terrible or even sexist. This was one of those movies where you obviously can't just watch it and say "oh that was bad" or "oh that was good", you literally had to put yourself into it or watch it with your heart, may sound stupid but you could feel these powerful mixed emotions of the characters like how babydoll's mother died and she was alone and even more depressed after her sister's death (not a spoiler but from the synopsis) if you payed attention you would probably feel the same way.

If your parents died and you accidently killed your siblings in the midst of protecting them then placed in an unpleasant environment and forced to do unpleasant things to survive, how would you feel or what would you choose? To simply die, or to fight for your survival or what's left of it? Sure the actors were hot girls in hot outfits, and dancing around, playing with guns like what many have called "a fantasy for 13 year old boys" but that is an understatement.

The girls were part of the main aspects but that shouldn't be the only thing you would to be watching for. They all had struggles and it showed how they chose to fight instead of just giving in and it wasn't just about how they dressed as well as how many people thought it was "pretending to be a feminist fable of empowerment".

It showed on screen, and by using the dream to portray how they're able to gain courage from battling all these grotesque creatures and situations they can deal with what's in reality and it may seem even less difficult to do so, how anything is possible and this showed powerful emotions, not just boring,pointless,or even pure violence.

Zack Snyder's actors were all female, and they all "chose" to audition for it, if it was sexist and overall a stupid, terrible, and unclear story then he wouldn't have a cast. Also his cast would not have put so much effort in their training for the movie as well as finding their deep inner emotions just so they can portray the pain for their characters.

This movie can be confusing to understand at times, but it was a movie where you really had to let it sink in. It's not where if you looked away for a moment then came back to it, you would understand what was going on, you had to watch everything little bit of it.

There was so much emotions along with the music, there was no need for too much dialogue, it showed that is if you payed attention and not forcing yourself to stay the whole 2 hours just to finish the movie.

Sucker Punch deserves so much more credit, and I really think that these "Critics" should reconsider rewatching it, and this time "actually watching" it, meaning engaging yourself into everything whether it was the music, the dialogue, the expressions, the emotions, the story, the visuals, just everything, whereas you're just watching any average film where you can take washroom breaks, look around or somewhere, then leave.

All I can say is this movie was brilliant, not a masterpiece but it was something, and it was not as bad as it "seemed" just because of how some people saw it as "a fantasy world for little boys watching hot girls gunning down zombies and fighting samurais.