"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."-Sucker Punch (2011) Review

Sucker Punch Review

Director: Zack Snyder

Genre: Action/Fantasy

Codestar30 Rating: 10/10

(This is directed by the same legend that directed '300' and 'Watchmen'!)

A young girl, only ever referred to as Baby Doll (Emily Browning), is put into a mental asylum by her abusive step father. Once there, she retreats to her fantasies and day dreams as a coping mechanism, and while there imagines herself to be one of many dancing held captive in a speak-easy and forced to perform on stage to survive. While there she and 4 other girls, Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung), devise a plan to escape from the speak easy. They have to get 5 items to escape their captivity, and the acquiring of each of these items is represented by yet another level of fantasy within the fantasy. 

1st of all after reading that 1st bit you may be just extremely confused and could have quite possibly already been put off. I am not going to pretend that the plot of this film is that good or that it even makes much sense. However despite this major weakness you won't even notice that what's going on doesn't make any sense, and I shall tell you why.

To be honest this film, although labeled as a female empowerment movie, this film is clearly something to be enjoyed by men. Unless you are a woman who enjoys watching sexy, scantily dressed, tight leather bound young women running around fighting gangsters, giant robot samurai, clock-work nazi zombies, orcs, dragons, shiny robots, and fat chefs. And that leads me on to why you, if you are a man, are highly unlikely to notice that lack of plot. You will be too distracted by the shooting and stabbing and punching and kicking and exploding and running and flying and jumping and killing and smashing and all round carnage. Aaaaaaaaand of course the revealingly dressed beautiful women. 

There is simply no other movie that has so much awesome stuff in it. Yes, the plot is bad, BUT it does provide the excuse to have all the afore mentioned stuff all in one amazing movie and still have it make just a little bit of sense. I mean, why would any straight guy (not saying the gay men wouldn't enjoy this, but the sexy women will obviously not be such an appeal)  would not love to see fit girls killing a wide range of awesome enemies with lots of guns and swords and helicopters and planes. 

Also all the actors and actresses do actually act very well. I couldn't possibly flaw any of them. The special effects are incredible, Avatar can go play in the corner. The colors and the rendering of the movie just looks great, as with all Zack Snyder movies. The directing is of course brilliant, because its Zack Snyder. Its just such a good film. I really can't think of anything negative to say other than the plot.

As you may be able to tell I LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF AAAAAALLLLL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would strongly recommend that you see it. I mean come on, I gave it 10/10 and there's a reason for that.