Sucker Punch (2011)

"Prepare to be wowed...  Bill Gibron, Filmcritic
"...so deliriously bizarre and wonderful.  Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
"...action-packed...  Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

Editor's Note The story of ALICE IN WONDERLAND receives a hyper-violent makeover in WATCHMEN and 300 director Zack Snyder's fantastical tale of a young psychiatric patient who escapes into a vivid world of fantasy after being committed to a mental hospital by her abusive stepfather. Set in the 1950s, SUCKER PUNCH takes viewers on an incredible journey into the mind of Babydoll (Emily Browning), who finds herself at the mercy of her malevolent stepfather after her mother passes away. With no remaining family and no friends to turn to, her stepfather has her committed to a bleak mental hospital, where she is scheduled to receive a lobotomy in five days. As the procedure draws near, Babydoll creates a phantasmagorical alternate reality in which she must seek out five items in order to secure her freedom. Should she fail, her mind isn't the only thing she stands to lose. Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, and Jon Hamm co-star in a film co-written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya.

	Scott Glenn
	Carla Gugino
	Jena Malone
	Emily Browning
	Jamie Chung
	Vanessa Anne Hudgens
	Abbie Cornish
	Oscar Isaac
	Jon Hamm
	Vicky Lambert - Co-Star
	Gerard Plunkett - Co-Star
	Hailley Caulfield - Co-Star
	Cainan Wiebe - Co-Star
	Eli Snyder - Co-Star
	Patrick Sabongui - Co-Star
	Phillip Mitchell - Co-Star
	John R. Taylor - Co-Star
	Michael Adamthwaite - Co-Star
	Brad Kelly - Co-Star
	Malcolm Scott - Co-Star
	Monique Ganderton - Co-Star
	Lee Tomaschefski - Co-Star
	A.C. Peterson - Co-Star
	Revard Dufresne - Co-Star
	Frederique DeRaucourt - Co-Star
	Kelora Clingwell - Co-Star
	Danny Bristol - Co-Star
	Chris Nowland - Co-Star
	Gina Garenkooper - Co-Star
	Arassay Reyes - Co-Star
	Danielle Benton - Co-Star
	Caitlin Goguen - Co-Star
	Maiko Miyauchi - Co-Star
	Paula Giroday - Co-Star
	Louise Hradsky - Co-Star
	Juliana Semenova - Co-Star
	Allie Bertram - Co-Star
	Caroline Torti - Co-Star
	Chantal Hunt - Co-Star
	Carla Catherwood - Co-Star
	Stephanie Sy - Co-Star
	Kathryn Schellenberg - Co-Star
	Geneen Gorgiev - Co-Star
	Annie Au - Co-Star
	Tia Haraga - Co-Star
	Daniela Dib - Co-Star
	Jeff Dimitriou - Co-Star
	John Howard - Co-Star
	Thomas Fornataro - Co-Star
	Antoine Baby Harry Calaway - Co-Star
	G! Force - Co-Star
	Nii Nortey Engmann - Co-Star
	Sean Campbell - Co-Star
	Richard Cetrone - Co-Star
	Ronald Selmour - Co-Star
	Ian Tracey - Co-Star
	Peter Bryant - Co-Star
	Christine Willes - Co-Star
	Gary A. Hecker - Co-Star
	Zack Snyder - Screenwriter
	Zack Snyder - Story
	Jim Rowe - Production Manager/UPM
	MPC - Visual Effects Designer
	Lyndon Barrois - Animation Supervisor
	Paul Becker - Choreographer
	Paul Leonard - Stunt Coordinator
	Chad Wiebe - Optical/Digital Effects
	Pixomondo Images - Visual Effects Designer
	Steve Shibuya - Screenwriter
	Brendan Ferguson - Production Manager/UPM
	Quantum Creations FX - Special Makeup Effects
	Jim Erickson - Set Decorator
	Marius De Vries - Composer
	Marius De Vries - Music Director
	Marius De Vries - Music Arranger
	Chris Jenkins - Sound Re-Recording
	Tyler Bates - Composer
	Tyler Bates - Music Director
	Tyler Bates - Music Arranger
	Digiscope - Visual Effects Designer
	Paul Barry - Assistant Director
	Larry Fong - Director of Photography
	Frank A. Montano - Sound Re-Recording
	Animal Logic Film - Visual Effects Designer
	Grant VanDerSlagt - Supervising Art Director
	Tim Rigby - Stunt Coordinator
	Damon Caro - Fight Choreographer
	Damon Caro - Stunt Coordinator
	James M. Churchman - Stunt Coordinator
	Nick Brandon - Stunt Coordinator
	Prime Focus - Visual Effects Designer
	Zack Snyder - Director

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Snyder's jaw-crashing flights of fancy are packed full of his trademark slow-mo bullet ballet..." 06/01/2011

Salon 8 of 10
First and most obviously, "Sucker Punch" is on one level exactly what it looks like: an unzipped geek-boy fantasy about a posse of scantily clad hookers engaged in video-game style throwdowns with a villainous array of robots, monsters and dragons. You could say that Snyder tries to walk a fine line between softcore exploitation and girl-power feminism, but it's more like he takes a big fat grade-school eraser and smudges that line into meaninglessness. Anyway, there can be no doubt that he really, really digs directing fight sequences, and as in "Watchmen" and "300," he commands a team that delivers the best effects in the business. - Andrew O'Hehir