Loved the first 10 minutes, but everything afterward is one gorgeous P.O.S. Perhaps Snyder should stick to scripts that aren't penned by himself...

The whole thing was like a gamers inside joke. Fighting Spice Girls.. I think people who bash this movie don't get the self irony. I was so bad that it had to be ironic right??! I went to see boobies and fighting and that's exactly what I got. I mean what can you espect from a plot line like that?

Very stylish directing, gorgeous visuals and a superb soundtrack make me forgive the ludicrous script a bit. A fun experiment, but let's hope Zack is kept in a shorter leash from now on.

entertainment factor is very high on this one. but that is all that is high. good looking girls fighting giant robotic samurai, dragons, and nazi zombies? yes please.

Wanted to see girls being awesome, got girls being awesome in pointless dream scenes and otherwise abused and beaten.

Contrary to what a lot of people glanced at on the surface and either dismissed due to their first-year film sensibilities or thought was going to be an eye-candy wankfest or were concerned with anti-feminist rage missed out on the pretty direct text and sub-text, which is that Snyder made a movie about women trying to be more than what the male gaze does to them, but still being contained in it and having to live with that fact.

I think this one is a masterpiece, but won't appeal to everyone. It is not for those who only watch "serious films for serious viewers such as themselves", but it will appeal to those looking for entertainment. The first 20 minutes could make a film on its own (remember Watchmen?) and I don't understand why people say "unlikeable characters". The film is about self discovery, not about prostitutes. It's about you, not them.

Most people will hate it, some will love it. I loved it. It's the 'Top Gun' for neckbeards.

very cool action movie 10 out of 10

Beautiful girls fighting in post-apocalyptic fight scenes? Count me in! Oh, the plot is essentially finished before the film begins, the fighting takes place in dream sequences that are completely ineffectual and unimportant, and 60% of the film concerns the beautiful girls being raped, abused, and murdered? Count me out.

A movie literally designed frame-by-frame with a magnificent collection of remixes for it's soundtrack.

You will either love or hate this movie, and I happened to love it. It's a risky concept but it allows it's creators to flex their visual muscle. In all reality, it feels like something closer to a music video than a movie, but it's that uniqueness that pulled me in.

Giant samurais using gattling gun Steampunk nazi zombies Catapults throwing orcs at flying plane Mecha Dragons Hot chicks designed for different tastes What more can i ask?

somehow i feel like celebrating the fact that this is far from the worst movie i've ever seen.

It's way up there and at this point (end of March 2011) stands as my favorite of the year, I can say that with some authority. Overwhelmingly stylish, the dazzling visuals (even though that's a buzz phrase nowadays) and the subversive main character and her dark story keep the movie moving along at a good clip. Had some really excellent scenes and interesting conventions, is supported by an excellent score and is an absolute feast for your Id. Oh -- and one more thing -- SUCKAH PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!

A film that, at least in its current state (we'll see what the director's cut is like), is visually excellent and delivers some great action, but is let down by an ambitious yet confusing story that bites off more than it can chew and characters that leave something to be desired brought by performers that try but are let down by poor dialogue. Polarizing to say the least, it's a failed experiment as a story that nevertheless still shows technical skill and a willingness to try and be different.

Fun, action packed, not heavy on the story but then why would it have to be.

First the positives. The action sequences are really well done. There's no doubt that Zack Snyder knows how to shoot action. The music is also very good. However, the story makes less sense the more you think about it, the ending is confused and ham-fisted, and one or two of the performances creak around the edges. It's not nearly as bad as it could have been, but in a way, the way in which some effort has been made to elevate this from pure teenage boy fantasy gives it a creepy overtone.

In retrospect, it overextended its reach.

Mediocre script, but a treat for the senses.

Like the rest of Snyder's films it's incredibly beautiful and has a badass soundtrack. The problem is the spectacular action sequences are the best parts of the film, and the rest lags behind. The ambiguous nature of it makes it hard to pin down the exact meaning, but I doubt Snyder really has as deep an understanding of the themes he presents here as he thinks he does. He certainly suffers without a strong script, and should stick to directing other's writing.

While some of the visuals were pretty good, I'm keeping my stance that music videos don't belong on Criticker, regardless of how long they are.

Well, punches... like a girl. There is some nice scenes and some interesting concepts, but Zack Snyder doesn't convert.

Points for the art direction, even that was bleak for source sake. Fuck the exposition to hell. The dance sequences turned to pulp boredom immediately. In fact, this makes House of Flying Daggers look like the film equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. The character dev. ranks with some of the lowest ever. I figure if you tried to ask Baby Doll what her perspective on knee high stockings was, she'd sort of gawk at you for a while, then a glob of drool would drip out of her indefinitely open mouth.

There's absolutely no excuse for this movie.

All this had going for it are hot women (I love Carla Gugino and I learned that it's a lot of fun to watch Jena Malone shoot guns) and a few neat looking things, otherwise it's a moronic bunch of crap.

A practical joke in film form, Sucker Punch entertains you and then shames you for being entertained, reconfiguring every nerd trope before applying a queasily sexual finish.

Imagine what Snyder could do if he got hold of a top class script, great actors and a coherent story. It boggles the mind because this is contemptible trash and is still watchable for the most part.

The film revels in excess whereas truly fulfilling fantasy films of similar themes find balance between distinctive visual stylization and narrative scope, benefiting, as superior works do, from filmmakers with more on their mind than gimmicks and fetish (see Crank 2: High Voltage, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). So the prevailing message of Sucker Punch's failure -- like that of its maker's whole career -- is that wanting to do something is not the same as doing it.

Typical case of style over substance.

Epicly bad.

i avoid almost every movie with female hero-characters, because mostly the actresses just can't pull it off. they move awkwardly with sword or gun and don't fit in to the choreographed background-action. not here. the cast is well chosen, the girls are pretty but still fight believable, even when it gets rough. cinematography & score are typically snyder (300, watchmen etc.) there's the occasional d'uh-moment, but too few to lessen the otherwise very enjoyable & entertaining experience.

Visually impressive but lacking in anything close enough to plot or character development to really be a great film. It had potential, but it squandered it on trying too hard to be titillating.

Liked the soundtrack.

Style over substance really isn't necessarily bad, as long as the creator is aware it can be owned. But this movie tried too hard to have substance (and failed) which sank it to a level of annoyance and caused the style to get old very quickly. But the few things it has going for it, the first 15 minutes of the admittedly very cool not-yet-old style, the soundtrack, Jena Malone, and the train scene, it's just enough for me not to regret the one time view.

Watchable