SUCKER PUNCHED!!

Last year Martin Scorsese proved that no director was totally infallible with his eyebleedingly shit 'Shutter Island,' now another great director has thrown himself on his own sword in public convinced he's the second coming; only to find its a more a case of jumbo cummings.
The evidence that this master film maker has got more than a bit of dickhead in him is the flawed and frankly stupid 'Suckerpunch.' A film so ill-concieved it makes Dan Quail chairing an Oxford University lecture on quantum mechanics a great idea. And if it was just shit then i could forgive it, but sadly it has the hue of self convinced genius that leads me to scream; 'PLEASE PUT THAT GUY BACK ON THE LEASH!'
Peppered with awesome and sometimes truly thrilling action sequences its a botched attempt to run a multi layered asylum breakout movie using fantasy to replace mundane shit like 'stealing a key.' This could be cool but its done with so loose a grip on narrative direction that it falls totally flat on its face.
The girl is taken to the asylum and told she will be lobotomised in five days, that's five days to escape, sounds interesting? Don't get excited.

The asylum becomes a dance hall fantasy where the girls are forced to dance sexy for clientele, then when Babydoll (all the names are stupid and Japanese pervey cartoon) dances she blows everyone away. While she dances she imagines she is somewhere else, deep in her subconscious, where an old man tells her how to fight the enemy and escape. We never see the dance and yes , this is about as much sense as it makes, from here on in it becomes an unintelligent and frankly obvious exploitation film, stacked with badly dressed babes who run around with guns. 

Just crap.

Now this is from the guy that brought us Watchmen, 300 and Dawn of the Dead and shows just how wrong things can go when someone starts listening to the voices in their heads. At some point someone should have stepped in and just told him to calm down, get his actresses flattering clothes and stop trying to punch above his weight. Hes a technical wiz and visually is fabulous but needs...NEEDS someone to write and edit him properly. This film points out all the things that could go wrong with the new Superman and other D.C projects, hiring guys that are convinced they are the second coming and don't need external aid to create story and projects. Superman could be a visual treat but if Snyder decides to make him cool in his vision...it could be really very shit.

MARKUS COMBOVER