First of all, I refuse to use this review to make obvious jokes at the movie's title (Sucker Punch) or tag line ("You will be unprepared"). What I will say though is that I have seen every Zack Snyder movie (with the exception of The Legend of the Guardians), and Sucker Punch is everything that is good – and bad – about a Zack Snyder film.

Sucker Punch opens with an amazingly cut sequence that sets up the main action of the movie. Baby Doll's (Emily Browning) mother dies, and while trying to fend off her stepfather from attacking her younger sister, Baby Doll accidentally kills her sister. To get her out of his way, the stepfather works a deal with a corrupt orderly named Blue (Oscar Isaac) to lock Baby Doll in a mental institute. It was this opening sequence, no matter how good it was, that made it almost impossible for this movie to "sucker punch" me because knowing the ultimate backdrop of the film is a mental institute really lessens the impact for all the fantastical elements of the movie. While it wouldn't make up for the flat acting and mundane plot, I could have done without knowing about the mental institute until the final reveal. It would have made the movie a bit more unpredictable.

While in the mental institute Baby Doll befriends a group of other girls: Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung). After getting over their initial jealousy of Baby Doll, the four girls team up with her to attempt an escape. During treatment, Dr. Gorski (Carla Gugino) tells Baby Doll that she controls the world within her imagination. It is in this world where Baby Doll meets

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