Review of "Sucker Punch"
Watching attractive young ladies dressed in skimpy outfits fighting orcs and dragons and zombies can be fun. For a while.
Director-writer Zack Snyder stretches "a while" way too long in his elaborate love kiss to geek fan boys, "Sucker Punch."
One such ridiculous action scene is impressive, if puzzling; two such scenes make for overkill while still offering little sense; and from there on the effect becomes both numbing and maddening.
"Sucker Punch" is the story of Babydoll (Lolita-esque Emily Browning), a young thing tossed in an insane asylum and awaiting a lobotomy. But wait! Maybe instead it's a house of prostitution? Or is that all in her head?
No matter what, when Baby Doll does an apparently wildly erotic dance (which the audience never sees), she transfixes those around her, while simultaneously traveling off to wild battle scenes — usually with her gang of foxy fellow inmates (Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jena Malone as Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie and Jamie Chung as Amber).
All of these women are super-powered Kung Fu-fighting killing machines. Or maybe that's just in their heads. No matter what, it makes for much mayhem.
Too much mayhem as the story basically becomes an excuse for high-gloss carnage. And yet all this energy is undercut by the fact that in reality — whatever that is — it's clear that none of this is happening.
In the end, the entire film is a tedious sexual tease of eye candy and slo-mo fight choreography, which is likely what Snyder — "300," "Watchmen" — intended.
If the goal was sensory overload and audience stupefaction, he has succeeded indeed. Snyder apparently is offering lobotomies to all. Step right up.
Director-writer Zack Snyder stretches "a while" way too long in his elaborate love kiss to geek fan boys, "Sucker Punch."
One such ridiculous action scene is impressive, if puzzling; two such scenes make for overkill while still offering little sense; and from there on the effect becomes both numbing and maddening.
"Sucker Punch" is the story of Babydoll (Lolita-esque Emily Browning), a young thing tossed in an insane asylum and awaiting a lobotomy. But wait! Maybe instead it's a house of prostitution? Or is that all in her head?
No matter what, when Baby Doll does an apparently wildly erotic dance (which the audience never sees), she transfixes those around her, while simultaneously traveling off to wild battle scenes — usually with her gang of foxy fellow inmates (Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jena Malone as Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie and Jamie Chung as Amber).
All of these women are super-powered Kung Fu-fighting killing machines. Or maybe that's just in their heads. No matter what, it makes for much mayhem.
Too much mayhem as the story basically becomes an excuse for high-gloss carnage. And yet all this energy is undercut by the fact that in reality — whatever that is — it's clear that none of this is happening.
In the end, the entire film is a tedious sexual tease of eye candy and slo-mo fight choreography, which is likely what Snyder — "300," "Watchmen" — intended.
If the goal was sensory overload and audience stupefaction, he has succeeded indeed. Snyder apparently is offering lobotomies to all. Step right up.
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