Sucker Punch Movie Review

Saturday night, I treated myself to the movie Sucker Punch, I was really anticipating this movie, and for the most part it did not disappoint.

So, to start, I liked this movie, I didn’t love it like I hoped, but I did like it.

Visually, it was great, the scenes were fantastic, showing all the polish that modern computer graphics can bring to a movie. 

Action, also good, combat scenes well choreographed, there were a few moments were you felt like the actor was waiting for a que, but it was usually during a scene transition, and it was rare.  Some might feel that the nature of the combat outfits the women were wearing might take away from the movie, but I didn’t

On to plot.  The story here takes place in the mind, a plot hitch I have always been intrigued by.  The bulk of the movie takes place inside female mental hospital, the main character, having been committed to the hospital, escapes to her mind.  From within her mind she meets a guide, that brings her to a plan of escape from the mental hospital, from there each step of the escape is acted out within the depths of imagination, corresponding with real world events.  It works quite well.  The negative side of this style of storytelling is twofold, first, the imagination style here is actually two levels deep, the first level, all of the girls seem to share a delusion that they are working at a night club, as burlesque dancers, instead of mental hospital patients, maybe as a coping mechanism, this step in the plot is a little confusing as the transition is fairly abrupt and the viewer is not brought along very smoothly.  Then just as you are getting the idea about the first step into imagination, the plot moves into the next layer of imagination, the combat plane, where each step in the journey towards freedom is acted out.  Once you get a feel for the flow of the movie it all works fairly well, but I think it would have gone better if the transitions brought the viewer along better.  The only other negative comment I have is the wrap-up, the movie employs a third-party narrative wrap-up, to confirm for the viewer, what indeed really happened, and what was just imaginary, the problem is, the wrap-up is too brief and leaves far too many questions to be a true wrap-up.

In conclusion, as I said above, the movie is good, I did enjoy it, and I think most of you out there will aswell, but you just might go home afterwards with a few questions that only google can answer.