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Sucker Punch
| Released |
1 April 2011 |
| Director |
Zack Snyder |
Starring
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Emily Browning, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie CHung, Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn |
| Writer(s) |
Zack Snyder, Steve Shibuya |
| Producer(s) |
Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder |
| Origin |
United States, Canada |
| Running Time |
109 minutes |
| Genre |
Action, fantasy |
| Rating |
12A |
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It sucked.
Sucker Punch quite frankly just has to be the worst film of the year so far. It’s the type of film that leaves you reeling, wondering who would give such a load of tripe the go ahead. Clearly an absolute fortune was spent on this film which is just as much use as wallpapering over a dilapidated shack with dry rot; if a movie’s plot and dialogue are no good then no amount of money pumped in is going to save it.
The plot centres on Babydoll, played by Emily Browning, who has been sent to a mental hospital by her evil stepfather. Blue, who runs the institution, played by Oscar Isaac, is crooked and plans to have her lobotomised. There she meets four equally gorgeous girls with equally ridiculous names, Sweetpea, Rocket, Blondie and Amber. Ok, Amber’s not too bad but the rest are just stupid. Babydoll encourages them to escape with her but first they must gather five objects to help them on their way.
It is just a mess. It’s difficult to even know what’s going on. A lot of the film takes place in a brothel and dance hall where the girls dance for clients of Blue. One minute they’re in a grotty room and in a flash they’re in corsets, glittery knickers and showgirl makeup having dance lessons. If the brothel sequences are fantasy not reality they’ve done a crap job of showing it as you are genuinely stumped due to lack continuity or proper explanation.
Babydoll is forced to dance and it turns out when she dances she captivates her audience to the point they are hypnotised. Each time she dances she finds herself imagining she’s in a battle scene, either alone or with her other irritating cronies. These scenes are the worst part of the film; they are so boring and go on and on incessantly until you slowly start to lose the will to live. There is very little rhyme or reason to them, unless you count exciting teenage boys with their makeup plastered faces and half naked nubile bodies.
The script is so shocking it’s difficult to judge the merit of the performances. Watching Sucker Punch you are uncomfortably aware of what they were trying to achieve with the style of it while equally mindful of how miserably they’ve failed. Dressing up stunning girls in hideous slapper outfits and fake eyelashes and giving them suspenders and guns but no decent dialogue does not a good film make. The only saving grace was a decent soundtrack.
- Cynthia Bifolchi |
