SuckerPunch



Zack Snyder has brought his personal
spank bank to the big screen!

There are going to be two kinds of people that are going to read this review, the first will read that I actually like this movie and flood the comment page with essays about how wrong I am. And the second who won't agree with me, but respect that I like a movie they don't. If there is a third kind of person who is reading this and enjoyed the movie as well then congratulations on perfecting human cloning and creating a second me, because I seem to be the only person alive other then Zack Snyder who likes this film. The film is Sucker Punch, a film that takes the premise of Inception and performs it with 5 beautiful women. It starts with Babydoll (Emily Browning) who is wrongly institutionalized and is to be lobotomised in 5 days. She escapes this reality by imagining herself as a newbie in a brothel, when forced to perform erotic dances she escapes to another fantasy where she...look, if you have read up on the little bit of a clusterfuck that is this movie you will know about the action packed fantasies that Babydoll has to escape the brothel/institution, this is the biggest selling point of the movie, but unfortunately it is also the biggest flaw in it. In each of the fantasies Babydoll and her team of beautiful ass-kickers are seemingly omnipotent, they can deflect bullets with a thin blade, they can take on dragons, undead nazi's, mechanical droids, all without breaking a sweat, this takes away all danger. There is still a danger in the real world in the form of the “High Roller” who is to appear in 5 days to take Babydolls virginity, and there is a real danger in the institute, but I was never worried for any of these girls whenever they were taking on armies of undead, it would make more sense for this movie to not cut away to these fantasies and keep the audiences on the edge of their seats while Babydoll danced.

Zack Snyder is starting to get famous for his slow-mo action scenes, and for the first few fantasies I accepted that he was doing what he does “best”but towards the end I was getting tired of them, and it seemed so was he as the last few fantasies seemed rushed, I found myself once again preferring to see Babydoll dance then watch her fight.

I do accept that this is either Zack Snyders wet dream brought to the big screen or a very long music video that he shot but I still like this movie, I found myself emotionally invested with Babydoll, I enjoyed the bittersweet ending which went well with the soundtrack (aside from the abomination that is the queen mash up.) I would suggest renting it rather then buying it full price as I know it won't be to a lot of peoples liking, and I don't want to be blamed for you spending your hard earned money.

Danny Baker

Danny@dragoose.co.uk