Sucker Punch is everything it looks like, babes with machine guns in a surprisingly deep and confusing movie.I love Zack Snyder; Watchmen is my fourth favorite movie of all time, so I was extremely excited for Sucker Punch.
The movie follows the story of a girl whose parents die, and her step-father tries to rape/kill her and her sister; in self-defense, she accidentally shoots her sister, and gets sent to a mental asylum by her evil step-father. She then actually goes insane and imagines the asylum as a burlesque strip club where the girls are forced to dance for important men. Whenever she dances, she hallucinates about a totally epic fight scene, and apparently that looks sexy to everyone else. She then has to orchestrate an escape from the club/asylum before she gets lobotomized.
However, the movie failed to live up to my standards for Mister Snyder. My first grievance is that the movie has absolutely nothing to do with Sucker Punches, I would have called it, "Babes with guns, what else do you want?." Maybe Zack just needs to stay with R rated movies, Sucker puke is PG-13, so it had all the usual themes Snyder deals with, (Rape, lots of it, sexuality, freedom, insanity) just toned down to the point where it didn't get across. Some people would say the movie is sexist, and it probably is, but i'm pretty sure it was meant to be empowering; it wasn't.
I did like the fight scenes in Super Punch, they are visually stunning, and totally awesome. There's nothing else to say, they're really well done.
Overall, if you like cool fight scenes and kind of being confused, then see Sucker Punch, it's Inception meets Shutter Island, meets Sin City.
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