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Zack Snyder has given us cinema eye-candy
in the form of Watchmen and 300, both of which had their own look and feel to them. And now Zack makes
a triumphant return with Sucker Punch, a movie that didn’t do well with critics or in the box-office… but it’s
definitely worth a chance now that it’s out on DVD/Blu-ray.
Emily Browning stars as Babydoll, a girl
who is wrongfully imprisoned in a women’s insane asylum after accidently killing her younger sister in the beginning
of the movie. There, in the asylum, she learns to deal with her surroundings by candy-coating them inside
of her imagination by imagining another world where she is a sex slave trying to escape the underground brothel.
Inside this brothel she runs into a few more girls [played by: Abbie Cornish, Jamie Chung, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jena
Malone] – girls who are actually in the insane asylum along with Babydoll. In order for these girls
to escape they need items, and to secretly steal these items Babydoll needs to dance for them… a dance that will hypnotize
them. During these dance sequences, which are never seen by the audience, we get swept away inside Babydoll’s
over-imaginative mind. Swept away to different worlds for different dance sequences. There
are worlds that resemble Lord of the Rings and worlds that resemble something you may see in a futuristic robot movie such
as The Terminator. These worlds are the eye-candy of the movie [well, there’s also the girls], and
this is also when the action sequences kick in.
Zack definitely
has his action scenes down, my only complaint about one of these scenes is that the usage of “fast-motion” is
used a little too much. I call it “Fast-motion” because the camera speed is sped up –
giving it a look as if the movie was being fast-forwarded. I’ve always hated that technique, even
when used in a classic movie like Gladiator. Fast-forwarding the movie just looks cheesy and completely
takes me out of that scene. But I only remember this technique being over-used in one of the fight scenes,
the rest were amazing and completely enjoyable. In fact, I think this movie would have made an incredible
video game. Since each imagined fight scene was different and unique in their own way, it would have been
fun to visit those worlds in a game.
The bottom line; the movie is very
imaginative and creative… it may be weird at times and even a little cheesy [hence the dance scene that will hypnotize
the bystanders], but… I found it very enjoyable. Did it have its flaws? Sure,
what movie doesn’t? The story could have been a little tighter, some of the action scenes could have
been a little more visually entertaining, but the fun factor really kicked in for this movie. Why listen
to all of the critics out there, go give it a try… you may just like it.
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