Sleaze on a big budget but not fun level.
Admittedly I haven't seen a lot of 2011 films this year, but this could be the pits. Using the same Inception/Paprika situation, a blond bimbo running around in her underwear ends up in an insane asylum where she descends into two fantasy levels. On one level she is a sexy stripper or dancer and on the other level she is a sexy sword fighting kick ass babe battling steam punk soldiers and samurai warriors.
At first I thought this film was some teenage boy sex fantasy film, then I figured Sucker Punch was a video game with a heavy dose of computer imagery. Finally I decided that Sucker Punch was a misogynistic porn film by the writer/director Zack Snyder but I don't think Snyder is smart enough to known what the word "misogynistic" means.
I also thought that Warner Brothers hadn't read the script. I realized the studio must have read the script since they green lighted the project and gave Snyder the money to indulge in his little sex and violence fantasies. Apparently Snyder wanted to make an R rated film but the studio stepped in and demanded a PG-13 version. God knows what a more explicit Sucker Punch would have looked like.
What's depressing about this film is the young women who had to appear in it. You know they were pretty much stuck in it because failure to sign on to this pile of manure would brand them as actors who wouldn't play the studio game, a career limiting move. In any case I doubt the film world will be hearing much from the stars of Sucker Punch, Emily Browning and Abbie Cornish.
A very unpleasant experience.
128 minutes.
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