Movie | Sucker Punch | Fail

Fail?!? That's right, Bucky. Probably due to so much hype, I became more and more irritated by this travesty of a movie the longer it went on, squirming in my chair as if I sat on a bunch of ants.

Like a video game or music video, the character development was so poor that it didn't matter when main characters died and the plot turned. Who cared? The battle scenes were impressive but, again, so what? Another one? Ho hum....

I liked the overall message of having a guardian angel. Or was that becoming your own guardian angel? Even that was a muddy, murky mess.

The music was interesting, too, until I realized that it was almost entirely covers. Seriously?!? They couldn't come up with anything new? And that really sums up this film. It isn't anything new. In fact, it's rather insulting if you're older than 20, you like movies and you aren't infatuated with video games and/or anime (if so, you are forgiven).

The acting was pretty bad and consisted of wearing about thirty pounds of makeup and mooning about for no explained or perceivable reason (men and women). If the girls were so tough, how did they get there and why did they put up with a bit of it? Oh yeah, there's some explanation, but it doesn't make much sense (and certainly not wearing a Sailor Moon outfit). The different realities intertwined randomly and for no other reason than completely for convenience of the script.

Is director Zack Snyder another Tarantino, creating self indulgent movies for perverse reasons at the cost of an interesting plot and character development? It certainly looks like it. He started off fairly well with the remake of Dawn of the Dead. That was pretty good because the original was pretty good. Then came 300, which was good because it was A GOOD STORY. Forget about the ridiculous airbrushed abs. Then we got the atrocious Watchmen, which was so awful that it's beyond words (despite a good cast). I didn't see the Owl movie, but from what I've heard, it was inappropriate for kids. But it was a movie for...kids?!?

The lights are on on, but nobody is home in the director's house. Mental note: don't see his Superman reboot.

Having said all of that, I can understand why other people would love it. It is (im)perfectly mindless entertainment.

I can't get my 90 minutes back and I wish I could. This was another case of too much build up, no delivery and a woulda, shoulda, coulda been so much better movie...

This flotsam lacked everything The Nines had...complexity, a script developed to a razor edge, really good acting and completely lacking in visual self stimulation (like the late great Hitchcock, it let you use your imagination...imagine!). If you'd rather engage your brain than numb it by beating it with a concrete block, see that movie instead.