Oh dear.How's this for a synopsis: a girl who accidentally killed her younger sister while trying to rescue her from an abusive stepfather is committed to a mental asylum, which is actually a brothel, but plans to escape with her fellow inmates by dancing seductively while entering into a dreamworld full of zombies, robots, ninjas and dragons. And if you think that makes no sense, you'd be completely right.
Sucker Punch is not a good film, to put it bluntly. It's not a total disaster - the visual effects and art direction are very good, some of the action scenes were well executed and there is some very interesting use of music. Sadly none of this matters when the story is complete nonsense and populated by a load of characters you care absolutely nothing about. While I give director Zack Snyder some credit for at least trying something original, the film he has made here is a jumbled mess, which is also surprisingly boring considering it features scantily-clad females battling against zombie Nazis with axes and swords. Being generous I might call it an "interesting failure" but really, it's just a failure. And a failure that promotes cruelty to dragons, to boot.
VERDICT: Skip it.
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