Hot babes with ammunition. Is this how I wanted to spend my tuesday night when all my homework was finished. Maybe on a friday night at a club down in Clifton Hills, but for tuesday cheap nights at the movies, sure why not. Sucker Punch, from the high head that brought us 300. It's about girls trapped in the harsh prison that calls itself a mans world or reality as some extremists would put it. Did I hate Sucker Punch; No. Did I love Sucker Punch; No. While some of my rival critics have disliked it to a high degree I on the other hand went into this movie with high hopes but came out neutrally.
A girl with no name known only as baby doll played by Emily Browning is sent to a mental institute for girls by her tyrannical step-father so he can get all her money after the death of her mother. The asylum is run by a corrupt business man who exploits the girls in the institute to wealthily and vile fat cats, for extra money. When her therapist tells her to that her mind can escape to its own world she meets a mysterious man in her mind who tells her of 5 things that will allow her to escape her physical prison, Baby Doll teams up with her cell mates to escape their living atrocity that is reality. Coming out of this movie from a mans point of view you get the feeling that they are being very sexist towards men, when the movie was in itself directed by a man. This man Zach Snyder seems to be a metaphor for a very overproduced movie that has no end to its pointlessness and no beginning for its raw confusion to start with. Pretty much all of the females characters in this movie didn't really convince me as characters until or before a moment of severer crisis, the prime example being the lead female. Our collection of male characters on the other hand I found to be far too brutal and dark for a PG13 movie and their attitude (especially from the main antagonist) is far more suited for something like a NC17 movie. I found this battle of the sexes to be a very dull and unconvincing war with no clear winner in sight.
The first fantasy scene of the movie made my brain feel very numb and once it was finished I was like “how much more is my mind going to rot, I gotta find a good book.” So although my mind did rot at each of these fantasy sequences they did get progressively better. The best one being with a ferocious dragon who I wouldn't want to mess with.
On the positive side their were a few things i did like about it. Item 1: It has incredible visual effects such as the dragon I mentioned in the last paragraph, but the problem is they seem to rely on this a bit too much in favour of a visually appealing film instead of a film with a good story. On the subject of man vs woman this is the showcase of the film and thats how it goes from start to finish and the movie plays the message of man vs woman good but it seems to play it a bit too well for fiction. Perhaps my favourite character in this movie is the one man who is on the side of good. He's smart, funny and a great deal of help to anyone in need in the movie and his wisdom is what saves this movie from getting less than a 1/4 shamrocks.
So a movie like Sucker Punch is not a horrible movie in my opinion, its ok. My main rival in movie reviewing on the other hand hated Sucker Punch with a capital H, but I was a bit for merciful with it by giving it a small chance to prove itself. To me it didn't prove itself but I still thought it was satisfying to rent from the video store but not enough to see on the big screen and defiantly not enough to see in Digital 3D. Its worth a trip to the video store that all i have left to say.
My Rating: 1.5/4 Shamrocks.
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