Sucker Punch

Perfect action sequences in a story about girl power that is only held together by the main protagonists’ makeup. Snyder shouldn’t write screenplays. Maybe I’m just getting old, but I won’t put up with this type of video game anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I always used to want to see scenes like where the dragon is chasing the airplane with the medieval battle raging beneath them or where the Nazi cyborgs are fighting in the trenches against a gang of scantily dressed young ladies (and that machine gun really suits Abbie Cornish). But since then, my movie priorities have changed. (06/18/2011)

Still going round and round I have to listen to the music that appeared in this movie. Even when writing this comment, I play it. It is precisely this music that turned a special fantasy into an incredibly dark gem, which is original in its dreaming and entertaining with all the characters that appear in the movie. The beginning of Sweet Dreams is perhaps the best version that the singer and actress Emily Browning has succeeded in. She showed the spirit in which the whole movie will be led. And it was flawless. The whole story is actually a tangle of dreams that Emily prepared in her head and the whole film offers a ton of perfect action that not only entertains, but is also great and full of great effects. But above all, it's fun and it was hard for me to look for anything else in the story. That's why I give it four stars. And that despite the fact that the ending honestly shocked me. Because it threw me from fun straight into reality. And it took little - a completely precise final monologue. (06/13/2012)

An incredibly crazy film, full of parodies, references, and captivating visuals. It’s a film made only for film enthusiasts and lovers of “fantasy” action. For bores and rational scientists, it will be a completely wasted hour and a half, followed by a feeling of WTF. Zack Snyder does whatever he wants and in his own way, it's also charming. (07/09/2011)

Snyder is fantastic with visuals and music (anyone who has seen the brilliant but sadly underrated Watchmen knows this), but for God's sake, never, ever let him write his own scripts! If I were to rate only the composition of shots, the imaginative details, the spectacular slow motion (which, I don't know how Snyder does it, I don't mind it in his case) and the the soundtrack (“Army of Me” by Bjork made me foolishly believe I would love the film), it would be worth a full score. But the decadent pop-cultural, cringeworthy, scripted ballast, which also pretends to convey some higher message, was impossible to digest even with a full brain shutdown. Snyder is a great craftsman, but he needs a permanent whip over him and a humility within himself, which, on the other hand, was not lacking in his almost reverential adaptation of Moore's “Watchmen”. (04/01/2011)

I love Zack Snyder in Watchmen and Dawn of the Dead, but I don’t like him in the silly 300. Sucker Punch is much worse than 300, thanks God that I didn’t go to the cinema for it. This is just pointless teenage fantasy that pretends to have a meaning. I’m not able to argue why I think it only pretends so, because this time I couldn’t be bothered to look for it while watching it, and I just don’t want to think about this film any further. Even the action is not that exciting. A fail of biblical proportions. (06/18/2011)