Review: Sucker Punch

If you sum up the plot for Sucker Punch, it's pretty much about a girl in a mental institute... and that's what Sucker Punch is, a very sick and confused little child.

The movie tries to copy Inception in a way. The movie takes part in 3 levels. The real world (probably), the imagination world, and the imagination world of the imagination world. Basically the girls believe that they're in a brothel rather than a psychiatrist hospital. The doctors try and treat the patients through song and dance, but the girls think it's part of their role as a stripper. Baby Doll, the main character in the movie can enter her own new dimension when dancing, so when the other girls think she's dancing in her torsolette she's actually fighting off dragons in her other own imaginary world. Eventually all the girls try and work together to escape the whorehouse/psycho ward and be free.

The idea itself is great but the plot is very weak. The dialogue is pointless and it never explains why any of this is happening apart from the fact that everyone in the film is crazy. The actors are all horrible and they don't really do a good job of setting up the characters and most of them just seem to go with the flow. They never tap into each of the characters feelings and just miss so many opportunities to make a bad story good.

Sucker Punch, like all of Zack Snyder's films, is not your average Hollywood film. It has all the elements to be an Hollywood film, lots of action, weak characters, horrible acting, boobies, but some how it's something a little different.

The film itself knows that you're all here to watch women in negligés shooting Nazis in the head (which were entertaining mind you).... but it sometimes remembers that it's a movie and tries to put in complications and twists in the worst possible times.

You never really know if the people behind the film are really intelligent or just really stupid. There are multiple scenes in the movie with very strange action sequences.
For example, in one scene one of the main characters spins her shotgun and reloads only to use it to club the other guy to death. Anyone who would watch this scene would think that she would fire the gun (like in terminator) but she didn't.
This may have been done initially to, like the title says "Sucker Punch" the audience.
This was a very interesting idea since they never explained the meaning of the title "Sucker Punch" but someone I feel like I'm looking into it a bit too deeply. If they went into all this trouble to "Sucker Punch" the audience, why couldn't they improved the plot as well?
Also it didn't really work in most scenes, and just made everyone around me go WTF?

Sucker Punch is an great experiment. It tries to do stuff other movies never do like explaining half the film though visuals and not dialogue, but the sad thing is that it also wants to be a movie at the same time.