
A young girl, Babydoll, is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather, where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female asylum inmates plot to escape the facility. The line between reality and fantasy blurs as Babydoll and the others, plus a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items that will let them break free from their captors in... (Full plot summary below)
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A young girl, Babydoll, is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather, where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female asylum inmates plot to escape the facility. The line between reality and fantasy blurs as Babydoll and the others, plus a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items that will let them break free from their captors in time.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesHow can we take action cinema, or babes-with-guns flicks, remotely seriously (if we ever could) after Sucker Punch? Snyder has created a monument to entertainment that he loves but, presumably, hates himself for loving. |
| Film Comment MagazineScott FoundasIt's close to what Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were after with their Grind House double-header, but shot through with Snyder's own psychotropic brio (which is something like the unholy union of David Lynch, Brian De Palma, and Ken Russell). |
| KWQC-TV (Iowa)Linda CookYep. That's exactly what audiences will feel after they've plopped down their hard-earned dollars for this mess of a movie. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIt's all megalomaniacal junk from Snyder, but that isn't his most offensive move. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereOh, what an endless, punishing, unholy mess this film is. I would have preferred a foreign language without subtitles to the dialogue in "Sucker Punch." |
| E! OnlineLuke Y. ThompsonSseems to be trying for the most expensive art film ever, but the story -- about girls in a mental institution who detach from reality -- often sidetracks in favor of cool visuals that don't necessarily make sense. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonWith all of his green-screen, CGI, treated-image technology, all Snyder does here is transport the audience into the middle of a pretty lame video game. |
| AV ClubNathan RabinBrowning has wildly expressive eyes and body language, but she turns wooden when delivering Snyder and Steve Shibuya's alternately purple and stilted banter. Like the film, she seems to regard plot and dialogue as necessary evils. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonA spectacular flop of fancy, mind-blowingly empty. Muddles along as if Nintendo fused Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire for people who play Call of Duty. Snyder's carved out a pointless new subgenre--call it video-game camp. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldGiles HardieThere is so much front to this that traditional depths of character development and motivation are sidelined, but this is intentional, allowing the audience to immerse in the layers of dreams and later piece together what actually happened. |