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Pity Zack Snyder.
The writer/director of Suckerpunch obviously had a grande vision for his first original movie. And, who knows? Under a more experienced hand, that vision might have been achieved. Unfortunately, for Mr. Snyder, the movie he has produced in not grande. Instead, he produced a visually lush movie, with an interesting premise that never really engages the audience. The story-within-a-story-within-a-story plot device he used was confusing and badly executed, at least, judging by the reaction of other theater-goers. The actors, I think, try to breathe life into their characters, but they fail because there is only so much you can do with a two-dimensional sketch. Perhaps the single best performance in the entire film is that of Carla Gugino.
Overall, the movie is not so much stillborn, as soulless. It has mechanical samurais, clockwork zombies, orcs, a couple of dragons, and an Alice-type main character, but what it really needed was some heart.
On the Melworks Scale of Movie Love, I'd give Suckerpunch a three out of ten. I wouldn't recommend paying movie theater prices to see it, but it might make an interesting rental in a few months.
The writer/director of Suckerpunch obviously had a grande vision for his first original movie. And, who knows? Under a more experienced hand, that vision might have been achieved. Unfortunately, for Mr. Snyder, the movie he has produced in not grande. Instead, he produced a visually lush movie, with an interesting premise that never really engages the audience. The story-within-a-story-within-a-story plot device he used was confusing and badly executed, at least, judging by the reaction of other theater-goers. The actors, I think, try to breathe life into their characters, but they fail because there is only so much you can do with a two-dimensional sketch. Perhaps the single best performance in the entire film is that of Carla Gugino.
Overall, the movie is not so much stillborn, as soulless. It has mechanical samurais, clockwork zombies, orcs, a couple of dragons, and an Alice-type main character, but what it really needed was some heart.
On the Melworks Scale of Movie Love, I'd give Suckerpunch a three out of ten. I wouldn't recommend paying movie theater prices to see it, but it might make an interesting rental in a few months.
