Sucker Punch

2011 Directed by Zack Snyder

You will be unprepared

A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.

Emily Browning Abbie Cornish Jena Malone Vanessa Hudgens Jamie Chung Carla Gugino Oscar Isaac Monique Ganderton Jon Hamm Scott Glenn Gerard Plunkett Richard Cetrone Malcolm Scott Ron Selmour Revard Dufresne Alan C. Peterson Kelora Clingwall Frederique De Raucourt Lee Tomaschefski Eli Snyder Cainan Wiebe Danny Bristol Danielle Benton Paula Giroday Louise Hradsky Daniela Dib Brad Kelly Peter Bryant Patrick Sabongui Show All…

Alternative Titles

Mundo surreal: Sucker Punch, Sucker Punch: The IMAX Experience, Sucker Punch EC

fantasy action thriller

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Review by Graham J ★ 21

Watching Sucker Punch is like watching a friend you don't really like play a videogame for two hours. Making things worse is the stranger sat between you both aggressively wanking over his iPod full of shit reworkings of your favourite songs.
Sucker Punch is not only as bad as you've heard, it's worse.
Review by robyn ½ 75

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

i’ve removed this review because i wrote it many years ago back in 2012 and it’s now PURE CRINGE but i still hate sucker punch i will no longer be speaking on this matter tvym
Review by Charlie Morris ★★★★ 51

I was told beforehand that this was a love it or hate it film and that there was no in between, and it's easy to see why that is. Personally, I don't agree with any of the negative reviews, so it turns out that I'm one of the few that love it.
Firstly, I don't understand why many of the reviews I have read go on about the huge emphasis on rape for. This is what put me off at first, but there are much worse films out there that people still love.
There is a focus, yes, but nothing is ever shown, if it even happens at all, as it is all implied rather than stated and seen. From…
Review by voidember ★★★★★ 42

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Please note: my review of this film reflects the Blu-ray Extended Cut which includes some extended and deleted scenes that are not in the theatrical version, scenes I feel are crucial to the continuity of the narrative in this film. If you've only seen the theatrical cut, I highly recommend watching the extended cut before reading my review.
Sucker Punch is arguably one of the most complex narratives in contemporary feminist filmmaking. Hear me out. As through a glass darkly, this is a film of several dimensions literally and figuratively speaking. How you interpret it will greatly depend on how you perceive the world, and in that way, Sucker Punch is one of the best examples of viewer subjectivity in…
Review by Logan ★★ 22

As a kid I wasnt very socially active. I was slightly awkward. I had friends I just didnt know how to be a friend. Or what a friend was supposed to be.
Growing up I'd do the same daily stuff. I'd wake up, have breakfast, go to school, do homework, read and go to bed. Except I wouldnt go to bed. I'd rest on my window. I'd imagine I could build a time machine and see the things no one else could see. It felt like I was standing on the edge. I'd look at the stars and wish I were with them. I'd escape reality, and build my own bubble where I felt like I belonged. It was kind…
Review by bizarre_eye ★ 1

Before they added all the slo-mo, this was apparently a 6 minute music video.
Review by brat pitt ★★½ 1

i was just here for oscar isaac lol
Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 5

62/100
Female empowerment as a fantastical glimmer of sci-fi trash and neopunk junk food. Its opening sequence is a little masterpiece in and of itself, using lightning as footnotes and shattering bulbs as a physical act of attempted liberation. It's too bad that the rest of this strange creation isn't as visionary as it wants to be, but I continue to get lost in every CGI-addled frame; a cheap and unwavering movie making power that Snyder utilizes to fulfill his dreams and expanses. Zombie soldiers, techno robots, and a big-ass dragon are only toppings in this overly massive action sundae. Pass the syrup.
Review by nathaxnne ★★★★½ 11

By far my favorite Zack Snyder movie, and the one that he seemed the most personally invested in, this large-scale CGI multiplex quasi- YA exploitation flick is really and truly bonkers. Sort of like if Mamoru Oshii's live action video-game movies were crossed with goth 60's snakepit sleaze and made for a mass audience. Almost like a Jodorowsky movie if it was made on a Playstation 2. The fact that this can be read as a 'small, personal' film in this director's filmography is insane. Truly one-of-a-kind.
This is a film about the het/cis male gaze from the het/cis male perspective, about ensnaring it, overloading it, making it ridiculous, frustrating it, denying it, exploding its contradictions, getting it lost forever…
Review by Jeff ★ 12

How the fuck did Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow destroy Kerry Conran's career, but this piece of shit landed Zack Snyder the Superman reboot?
Review by Gally☆Gabrielle ★★★★★ 13

Extended Cut
★★★★★★★★★★
Nonsense. Nothing is what it is, because everything is what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what the film is, it is not, and what it is not, it is.
From the fetishistic costumes of our female heroes, the misogynist possessive villain, the ideals of freedom as an abstraction, the portrait of mental illness as both an escape route and an entrapment, the metalinguistic reality of these girls trying to escape from the abrasive industry of entertainment crafted by groundbreaking set designs, all the way to the absurdly fantastical worlds created by Babydoll's imaginative mind, everything is one big cabaret spectacle in Zack Snyder's very own Alice in Wonderland.
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 29

Zack Snyder's Rob Zombie's Halloween II
& yes, take that as you will of course, haha.

Recent reviews

Review by Nodie ½

Fuck this movie is so boring I had time last night to have a depressive episode after the movie. No jokes this move is bad. Zack Snyder brings all his tropes and thinks it's cool to do so when it's I want to watch John Wick now cause I rather action but able to keep pace with a camera and know what's happening. The robot fight scene is probably the there is in this movie. Cut out the action and you might of had a decent story. Might of had.
Review by LaneWZ23 ★½

Sometimes people don't go into a movie with an open mind and they immediately throw it down a well without giving it a chance. I read reviews, heard reviews from friends and still decided to check it out even after all the bad press. I will say I wasn't disappointed because it was a bad movie....but....I was also pleasantly surprised by a few things. If I was rating this movie solely on action, visuals and fantasy it would easily get 4 stars. The scenes where Emily Browning "dances", which is really her fight scenes, are visually breathtaking and full of awesome slow-mo killing and fighting. The sword play is simple but effective and the gun blasting is great. The effects…
Review by rhyneking ★

This is a bad movie.
Review by coralinesus ★½

Whoever put this in a Twitter thread of movies similar to ginger snaps has never told a word of truth in there life
Review by Alison ★★★★★

...forgive me
Review by Manuel Uberti ★★★★★

Sucker Punch establishes quickly its focus, which is the psychological and physical dominance of men over women. Opening with Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics sang by Emily Browning is not a simple pop choice to underline the abuse on the screen. Instead it immediately sets the viewer in the mind of Browning’s Babydoll character. Beside a voice over, Snyder stages the event leading to the confinement of Babydoll in a psychiatric hospital with only images and music. The lack of words is not casual and has nothing to do with the video-music style Snyder’s been often accused of. We are trapped in Babydoll’s nightmare as are her words. Silence is a natural reaction to shock and trauma after all and certain events cannot be easily explained. The commentary is stuck in our head as we are bound to relive them sooner or later. Thus the multi-layered narrative of Sucker Punch starts way before we enter Babydoll’s fantasy world.
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Review by Rootfish Jones ★★

This is what happens when a director watches too much anime.
Review by veronica

it's 6am. did not watch this movie. love is the drug got its hook in me
Review by miriam

watched two scenes that were cut from this movie on youtube . solid film
Review by snailkiddo ★★★½

was extremely crossfaded this whole bmovie but my opinion is that irs the best type of sexism
Review by josiah0706 ★★★

I mean it’s a Snyder movie so it’s mostly style and no substance, don’t get me wrong I like Snyder’s work it looks incredible but the story there’s no point
Review by PlainSimpleTom ★★★★

Highly imaginative and balls-to-the-wall insane, it can sit quite comfortably alongside Watchmen and 300 as Zack Snyder's best works.
It also really demonstrates the type of filmmaking that Snyder would later bring to Batman V Superman and Justice League, although those particular features were clearly not the best.