Saturday, July 9, 2011

Sucker Punch

Zack Snyder

A pretty bizarre film. Owl-Creek-like extended dream in the mind of a woman about to be lobotomized...unfairly. Splendid production design and CGI work throughout but this was all very stupid. Even though he had my attention all the way I was shaking my metaphorical head the while wondering where this was going...and why?

It didn't help that the lead actress and several principle players couldn't act at all. Line readings were sometimes embarrassingly bad. But the video-game-style ultra violence was so well executed (pun) I couldn't look away. Like watching a train wreck that takes an hour and a half.

He even managed a (sort of) happy ending. Credit ZS for getting such a crazy project made.

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