Sucker Punch!

This movie has me somewhat baffled at it's entirety. Then again, I do tend to take movies too seriously.

This film, while impressively visually stimulating with it's "pin-up girl action," isn't going to get nominated for best story or anything of the sort. An incredibly sexy cast of beautiful women (lead by Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jamie Chung) outline an adventure carried out in subconscious action scenes to make a daring escape from an insane asylum being run by a psychopathic Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac who is sometimes mistake for David Krumholtz). The plot follows the main character only known as Baby Doll (Emily Browning) whose life is wrecked by the death of her mother, while defending her little sister from an atrociously disgusting and brutal Stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) she accidently kills her sister. Soon after the Stepfather sends her to an insane asylum where we (as movie go'ers) are plunged into her subconscious escape from the reality we see only for a rough 20min of the movie.

The whole film is a Zach Snyder-gasm. Amazing cinematography blended so very well with green screen computer generated backgrounds, enemies, environments and weather. I am a huge fan of samurai demon slaying, as well as gorgeous and enticing pin-up girls, so this movie was a real pleaser for me. However the plot, though basic in many regards and original in others, sufficed for what I feel the movie was trying to say, and in case you don't catch what the message of the movie is, it's laid out for you in the final 5seconds before the credits start rolling. I enjoyed the music to a lesser degree, it's not my taste, but it certainly fit the mood of the movie and that I can appreciate.

I found the movie as a whole to be worth while, as far as a price of a movie ticket is concerned. It's visually stimulating, and has a few redone songs from early generations, but overall this movie's plot was vague at times, tasteless at others, but seemingly original in context. I would give it a higher rating than most movie reviewers, only because I believe I understand that there are more than one standard to hold a movie to. In short, I can really only say that if you got 10$ laying around you should head over to your local theatre with a bucket of popcorn for this action packed CGI fest.