Remember Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"? In a dystrophic future UK, an Everyman retreats to day dreams of a foreign land? If the movie was just plain awful, screwed up its every metaphor, and had been addled by video games, changed sexes, and… well, Baby Doll (Abby Cornish), aiming for her step dad, kills her sister, gets stuck into a mental institute and retreats into dreams.
How bad can it be?
Pretty fucking bad. In the institution while awaiting a lobotomy, she imagines herself a dancer in a brothel and while dancing enters a video game where she has to find weapons so she can lead her friends and fellow nutjobs to escape.
The problem, over and above that it looks like shit? It is too far removed from the audience. Inside, the institute you are in a fantasy within a fantasy. The disconnect between "Sucker Punch"'s movie vision and what is happening on screen is too far. It doesn't matter.
Also, for a sexy action movie with gorgeous leads, it isn't sexy at all.And the music?
Ugh.
From a terrible rip off of Ken Russell at the start, (it is like the scene where Oliver Reed kills Tommy's father) to "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) sung by Emily Browning (who plays Sweet Pea -is it worth mentioning how completely tedious all the girls are: there isn't a personality between them) , through the single worst version of "Army Of Me" set to a WW2 video game fantasy, and a "Go Tell Alice" the versions aren't up to much and the visuals are so crappy… awww, what's the point. Now available on video, don't see it.
Movie: F
Music: C-