Sucker Punch packs a pretty strong wallop. I enjoyed a lot of it, but I wish someone had warned me that a lobotomy was going to be a major plot point.

| Jan 8, 2021

Gun-toting hotties combat assorted villains and their robot henchmen in this tawdry, repellent action fantasy.

| Dec 6, 2011

Snyder likes to think that his Russian nesting doll of a concept is enough to excuse its hollow center.

| Jun 29, 2011

It's close to what Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were after with their Grind House double-header, but shot through with Snyder's own psychotropic brio (which is something like the unholy union of David Lynch, Brian De Palma, and Ken Russell).

| May 11, 2011

Heaven help us if we're ever supposed to feel guilty about watching hot chicks kick ass with guns ablazin', especially if the spectacle involves fire-breathing dragons.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 13, 2011

The movie spins out of control, until it collapses in a heap, senseless.

| Apr 11, 2011

To the degree that Baby Doll and her pals are forced into becoming fetish objects, Sucker Punch contains its own critique -- though Joss Whedon's fascinating 온라인카지노추천 series Dollhouse explored similar themes with far more wit and skill.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2011

There is so much front to this that traditional depths of character development and motivation are sidelined, but this is intentional, allowing the audience to immerse in the layers of dreams and later piece together what actually happened.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2011

The baleful influence of David Lynch, kung-fu pictures and Shutter Island lie behind its rancid lucubrations.

| Apr 4, 2011

A creatively bankrupt succession of fetishy bromides -- steampunk, Asimov, medieval times, and (personal fave!) a woman in a sailor suit, sucking on a lollipop and calling it feminism 'cause she carries a gun, too.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 1, 2011

I don't doubt that Mr Snyder is possessed of an imagination; it's just that what he imagines is hackneyed, meretricious and boring.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2011

This is a pretty awful botch-up, meaning far less than it seems to think.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2011

Have we already found the worst film of the year?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 31, 2011

If you thought Zack Snyder's previous films, among them 300 and Watchmen, were over the top - cliché-embracing, muscle-bound pseudo-triumphs of digital effects over storytelling - they have nothing on Sucker Punch.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 31, 2011

Snyder pulverises our senses with derivative digital images and obvious musical choices. But his failure to delineate the levels of 'reality' is confusing and self-defeating.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 30, 2011

Ambitious and visually impressive as a pop-video mash-up, but, lacking a strong emotional core, it doesn't quite cohere as a fully satisfying movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2011

Looks a lot like either a very stupid person has tried to make a very clever film, or a very clever person has tried to make a very stupid one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2011

A series of extravagant computer-generated adventure scenarios linked by grim mental hospital plot, Sucker Punch represents a particularly ambitious exercise in tedium.

| Mar 25, 2011

Director Zack Snyder and his production crew clearly had great fun envisioning this swords-and-corsets fantasy. Few others are likely to approach their level of enjoyment.

| Mar 25, 2011

The suckers here are the poor mugs who leave their dollars at the door. And for what? A seedy, desaturated, overstimulated simulation of a real movie. Schlock treatment for comatose gamers, and a bomb with a bright pink cherry on top.

| Mar 25, 2011