Sucker Punch, how do I describe this movie? While I understand it is an intricate story,
with deep meanings and subtle undertones………… The movie is downright
confusing. It is like in inception the
deeper you go into the levels of dreams, the more unstable the reality becomes… What do I mean? Sucker Punch is a movie about a girl named
Baby Doll, whose mother just passed away.
She and her little sister are placed into the care of their evil Step
Father who I think killed the mother for the inheritance and rage quit being
nice when he found out his wife left everything to the kids. The opening of the movie is tense with little
dialog just Baby Doll accidently killing her little sister while trying to save
her and shooting her step father in the shoulder. Which leads to her being admitted into a psyche
ward. Here is where things get hairy.
The psyche ward Lennox Home for the Criminally unstable, is
well run by assholes and seems to only have female attendees and no males. Here is where it goes Inception on you. You are introduced to the stage…….. Briefly get used to that cause well lets just
say things come and go at an alarmingly fast pace and well it is either never
seen again or is touched upon later but subtlety to the point where you forget
about it. To cope with being in a psyche
ward, baby doll conceptualizes the psyche ward as a brothel/orphanage for
girls. Here the girls are trained to be
dancers and sold to high rollers for sex or so it is implied. During one of her dance lessons baby doll
enters the third level of inception and meets the wise man, who gives her a
katana and twin pistols. We saw what
happened the last time she used a gun why in the hell would you give her an
upgraded model. …. Back on course and to
the point.
The wise man gives Baby Doll a mission, collect five items
to win your freedom. By finding a
map; fire, knife and a key, and the
fifth item being something mysterious she won’t know about until the right
moment. This movie could be worth
watching if it wasn’t so fucking jumpy and cryptic. Like I was saying earlier it switches reality
not once, but twice. It briefly
explains that Baby Doll’s dancing hypnotizes those who watch her. This the other dancers Sweet Pea, Blondie,
Amber and Rocket use to steal the items Baby Doll is looking for……. Each time they want to get an item Baby
dances, closes her eyes and boom fading cut to the third reality. Missions where baby and the girls are kick
ass chicks. The vivid imagination of
baby doll where she can seemingly properly wield a katana and guns and make her
partners just as combat awesome……… Let
us not forget she ia imagining the brothel/casino/ orphanage to escape thinking
she is in an insane asylum. Oh did I
mention she is going to be lobotomized in five days. Maybe that slipped my mind because THE FUCKING
MOVIE ONLY SHOWS YOU ABOUT THIRTY SECONDS OF HER ABOUT TO HAVE THE
SURGERY.
This movie could have been awesome, it is visually appealing,
and the girls are fantastic to look at.
The dialog is alright at best and choppy at worst. This movies glaring flaw it throws way to
much at much at you way to fast. I keep
bringing up inception but at least inception took the time to explain that hey
we are going to fuck you mentally.
Sucker Punch, well it sucker punches you in the face leaving you stunned
and confused.
I give this movie a 7 out of 10.
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