Showtimes IMDb link. But why bother? Sucker Punch is pure torture to sit through. There are ideas here, yes, and style to spare โ Snyder previously made the graphic novel adaptations and Watchmen โ but the problem is in the presentation.
Snyder is effectively switching channels every few minutes, bouncing from idea to idea and showering us with visuals while locking us out of the story. What we experience, effectively, are metaphors piled on top of metaphors: the girls need to obtain a map to escape the mental institution, they plan this in the nightclub fantasy sequence, and carry out the mission of obtaining the map on the fantasy warfront.
Sucker Punch plays out more like a video game cutscene, something that bridges the gap between player or audience interaction. I think the filmmaker realized this by the end, but by the time hamfisted narration is addressing you, the viewer, this piece of junk is being laughed off the screen. Dierker, Abby Elliott, Vedette Lim. Written by Michael Samonek and Elizabeth Meriwether. Guess which wins out?
Hot topic, I guess. This premise was, I think, successfully explored in an episode of Seinfeld , which might have used about one-third of a minute runtime on the subject.
Yet No Strings pads it out to minutes, filling up the dead space with an abundance of subplots that are actually far more interesting than the main storyline. The friends who agree to participate in this are Adam Ashton Kutcher, who we expect in this kind of thing and Emma Natalie Portman, whose presence here is dumbfounding , casual friends who have known each other since summer camp.
