Sucker Punch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/
At Lennox psychiatric hospital Baby doll (Emily Browning) arrives. She and her younger sister has been - as seen in the trailer - have been attacked by her stepdad.









We are made believed that it is an incest of some kind, but the only thing we see are Baby dolls shirt being pulled and a buttom fly from her dress and lands on the floor - in Zack Snyder slowmotion style.









While at the psychiatric the guards seems to be slimey and creepy without any morals whatsoever. Kind of giving the impression that these guards probably has or can do some sexual- assualt any given minute.

So far so good, right? And we are only a few minutes into this movie. …and then it shifts, completly.
Sucker punch has more or less devided movie lovers in two different sides, those who Love it and those who (almoust) hate it.
Visually it is in the same style has Snyders earlier movies; 300 and Watchmen. That is it is somehow a feast for the eyes and when it has Emily and
Jamie Chung in the cast, I understand why.







Sucker punch is a videogame/comicbook adaption that uses the latest skills from the wizards of SF effects. So if you feel to sit back, enjoy the ride and escape into a world created by guys who somehow revolutionize the world of cinema, sucker punch is a movie for you. But it´s also a movie about escapismhment (not sure if that´s a world to begin with).

The trauma the girls at the psychiatric has to deal with makes them fantasize about the world and the enemys within.









But our heroin girls can´t only fantasize (the fantasize part is however done by the men while they watch Baby doll dance) they also can kick some serious ass. Sometimes they fly across the rooms themself and get seriously beaten - PG13 style.









It may at first hand sight seems like an movie like nothing you have seen before, but it borrows from movies such as Lord of the rings trilogy (the storming of the castle and the monsters that live there are spot on to the Uruk-hai). Also it uses the camera to pan closely arround different items - wich some think it´s so refreshing and new - it has been used for many many years however in Hong Kong and Japanese movies, later on it became known for the wider public when The matrix hit the big screen. Even the slowmotion takes where the females carachters hair - often the bangs/their hairstyle

is used to slowly fly across the girls face - also done before for several decades in asian movies.





Strangely enough, Sucker punch is somewhat original and a enjoyable experience to watch. But if it only could have continued the way it started.

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- Hmmm.. female and she´s 20..
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- I don´t know what you did to this girl and frankly I don´t wanna know.
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- Don´t worry, she won´t even remember her name when I´m done with her.
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- Blue saving her for the high roller.
- Huh, she ain´t no virgin.
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- The fantasy of freedom is all they have.
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Official site inclueding trailer
http://suckerpunchmovie.warnerbros.com/dvd/

Official Japanese site inclueding trailer
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/suckerpunch/index.html

Info on the Comic art and making of the movie
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/BrentSprecher/news/?a=21067

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/LetsCutTheBS/news/?a=22229