Sucker Punch: Imaginative, but idiotically!!
Wish, characters in this movie would have performed their actions with respect to my joystick’s buttons. Leading lady in Zack Snyder’s latest flick “Sucker Punch” gets a super kick from a beast like creature but instead of getting first aid she stands up as if she wasn’t kicked but pampered. By now, i think you've understood that it's all about mindless action sequences & you know what? you're probably right.
Plot of the film is thoroughly vague & confusing but I can definitely conclude that it was taken up from Inception. If a person with an average intelligence tries to figure out the story exactly, than he will surely bang his head to any available surface. Emily Browning plays Baby Doll who is thrown by her step-father into asylum for charges of murdering her own sister. With conventional tête-à-tête, she unites with 4 other chicks to get out of that sick place. Those 4 chicks are funnily tagged as Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Amber (Jamie Chung) and Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens). While dancing in outrageously unusual but nevertheless sexy outfits, they grab full attention of the guests & during that dance, they log in into their imaginary world which doesn’t have any password though & over there, they mightily fight with unimaginable creatures to get 5 elements i.e. map, litter, knife, key & last one I won’t say, you better watch it, which will help them to get out. And as it’s a video game as I mentioned earlier, so you hardly see any blood. Only way out is don’t bother much.
Four different action sequences are created so magnificently, that it will please your retina like anything & everything. Huge guerilla like creatures with sharper than sharpest weapons, war scenarios giving world war feel, giant dragon mushrooming fire & intellectually designed robots leave your mouth completely open. Tsunami of CGI will surely drown your brain and senses. As a consequence, one won’t be able to concentrate on story. Yes, that’s the strategy which Zack applies here.
But those who don’t have much passion for video-games alike me, will end up saying, “Oh shit, not again!” Well, fight sequences are obviously predictable which hampers movie's charm to a considerable extent.
I appreciate the creativity & vision of Zack Snyder in ‘300’ & ‘Watchmen’ which were undeniably compelling, memorable & visually stunning but I don’t appreciate the liberty which he took this time with ‘Sucker punch’.
