Well I didn’t feel sucker punched in anyway by Sucker Punch. There was no great swerve, no big reveal, no twist that you couldn’t see coming. That said Sucker Punch is still mildly entertaining although the extended cut takes an already lengthy film and makes it 18 minutes longer for no discernable good reason. After helming three very good films (Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen) Director Zack Snyder hasn’t exactly hit the ball out of the park with his last two films: The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and this one. Sucker Punch has its moments but tries to be too cute and is effusive in every way, highlighted by a soundtrack that runs the gamut of everything from classic rock to rap, with three of the songs sung by lead actress Emily Browning.
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Browning plays “Babydoll”, a 20-year-old girl who is committed to a mental asylum by her abusive “evil” stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) who wants to get his hands on the fortune that Baby Doll’s late mother left her. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), the asylum’s head orderly, is bribed by Babydoll's stepfather into forging the signature of the resident psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized, so she can never be able to inform the authorities of the true circumstances of her sister's death, nor claim her mother's fortune.
Babydoll creates a fantasy world in her head where instead of being trapped in an asylum, she, along with several other women, are trapped in a bordello where Blue is the pimp, Dr. Gorski is the Madam who choreographs sexy dance numbers, and the girls are sex slaves for wealthy, drooling patrons. Babydoll has been promised to a “high roller” who will arrive in five days. She’s determined to escape the asylum before he arrives and enlists the aid of the other girls: Amber, Blondie, Rocket, and Sweet Pea (Cornish). When Baby Doll dances she creates a suggested hypnotic effect on those watching her, essentially paralyzing them until she’s done. During her dances, she and the other girls slip into other fantasy worlds (maybe this girl really IS crazy) where they have to locate several items that will aid in their escape plan.
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