Sucker Punch

5.00
    Sucker Punch
    2011

    Synopsis

    A young girl, institutionalised by her abusive stepfather, retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.

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    Cast

    • Emily BrowningBabydoll
    • Abbie CornishSweet Pea
    • Jena MaloneRocket
    • Vanessa HudgensBlondie
    • Jamie ChungAmber
    • Carla GuginoDr. Vera Gorski
    • Oscar IsaacBlue Jones
    • Jon HammHigh Roller / Doctor
    • Scott GlennWise Man
    • Richard CetroneCJ

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Los Angeles Times

      A wonderfully wild provocation - an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      Browning has wildly expressive eyes and body language, but she turns wooden when delivering Snyder and Steve Shibuya's alternately purple and stilted banter. Like the film, she seems to regard plot and dialogue as necessary evils.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Certain to create a gaping divide between generational and aesthetic camps, Sucker Punch is a largely grim and unpleasant display of technical wizardry wrapped around a story that purports to be inspirational.
    • 40

      Variety

      Like Quentin Tarantino, Snyder is unapologetic about his influences -- the trashier the better -- though he's far less skilled in the art of pastiche.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      His (Snyder) mash-up set pieces ("Call of Duty" meets "Castlevania," etc.) blend into so-awesome-they're-awful slo-mo monotony, and the awful sisterhood stuff in between makes you anticipate the action as though waiting for the bus.
    • 38

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      Hands-down the most nightmarishly awful film of the year.
    • 30

      Movieline

      Punch manages to cram more slow motion into its first few minutes than a season of NFL highlights, all of "Inception" and every one of those NBC promos where the casts of whatever failing police procedural walk menacingly towards the camera.
    • 25

      Orlando Sentinel

      The most epic miscalculation since the Golden Summer of M. Night Shyamalan. An unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold, Sucker Punch is "Last Airbender" with bustiers.

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