Sucker Punch
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 25, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 24, 2011
Sucker Punch doesn't all work by a long shot, but it confirms my sense that Snyder belongs near the top of a very short list of directors who are trying to reinvent a personal, auteurist vision of cinema at the most commercial, mass-market, attention-disordered end of the spectrum. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMar 24, 2011
A wonderfully wild provocation - an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMar 25, 2011
No, Sucker Punch doesn't make any sense. But none of that matters, because the ride Snyder takes you on is so vividly conceived, so deliriously bizarre and wonderful. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn LevyMar 24, 2011
It's a film that's at once too much and not enough, laughable and groovy, dead serious and a total joke. And I mean no disrespect by any of that. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinMar 28, 2011
Ambitious and visually impressive as a pop-video mash-up, but, lacking a strong emotional core, it doesn't quite cohere as a fully satisfying movie. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichMar 25, 2011
Begins in the land of lunacy and ends up somewhere on the far side of deranged. Read full review
50
Washington PostMark JenkinsMar 27, 2011
An extremely boyish ode to girl power. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 25, 2011
It's a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesMar 24, 2011
You've never seen a movie like Sucker Punch. And depending on your entertainment preferences, you may not want to. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 24, 2011
Though Zack Snyder is known as an action director, he is a genuine artist and one of the most exciting and promising filmmakers to emerge in the past 10 years. His new movie, Sucker Punch - let's just say it - is a failure, but there's so much talent on that screen that the movie can't be dismissed as a waste of time. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMar 24, 2011
Browning has wildly expressive eyes and body language, but she turns wooden when delivering Snyder and Steve Shibuya's alternately purple and stilted banter. Like the film, she seems to regard plot and dialogue as necessary evils. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonMar 24, 2011
His (Snyder) mash-up set pieces ("Call of Duty" meets "Castlevania," etc.) blend into so-awesome-they're-awful slo-mo monotony, and the awful sisterhood stuff in between makes you anticipate the action as though waiting for the bus. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 24, 2011
Certain to create a gaping divide between generational and aesthetic camps, Sucker Punch is a largely grim and unpleasant display of technical wizardry wrapped around a story that purports to be inspirational. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 24, 2011
Like Quentin Tarantino, Snyder is unapologetic about his influences -- the trashier the better -- though he's far less skilled in the art of pastiche. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 27, 2011
This movie isn't bad in the way some incompetently made movies are bad; this is bad because there's much skill evident in a pointless endeavor. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 25, 2011
Looks aren't everything. Case in point: Sucker Punch, a dazzling visual design that goes tone-deaf every time it opens its dumb mouth or makes claims to profundity. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 24, 2011
Hands-down the most nightmarishly awful film of the year. Read full review
30
TimeRichard CorlissMar 28, 2011
Sucker Punch has vast empty patches, deserts of dead air. Read full review
30
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondMar 24, 2011
Tackling his own original screenplay, Zack Snyder keeps his reputation for outlandish visuals intact but strikes out as a storyteller. Read full review
30
MovielineElvis MitchellMar 24, 2011
Punch manages to cram more slow motion into its first few minutes than a season of NFL highlights, all of "Inception" and every one of those NBC promos where the casts of whatever failing police procedural walk menacingly towards the camera. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorAndy KleinMar 25, 2011
"The idea evolved and expanded," he (Snyder) says, "and took on a life of its own." Unfortunately, all of that life must have dribbled away as the project developed, because the resulting nonsense has none. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumMar 24, 2011
The music screeches, the actors vamp, the knives and weapons and bombs and fireballs fly around the screen. Meanwhile, the well-prepared moviegoer slips into her or his own private fantasy of a world in which movie effects are themselves locked away in an institution for the criminally insane until such time as those effects are really, truly necessary for the story. Read full review
25
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreMar 24, 2011
The most epic miscalculation since the Golden Summer of M. Night Shyamalan. An unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold, Sucker Punch is "Last Airbender" with bustiers. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 25, 2011
If I were to guess how Hollywood envisions the inside of a teenage boy's brain, it would look exactly like Zack Snyder'sSucker Punch." Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 31, 2011
Appallingly bad stuff. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 24, 2011
There is nothing here to enjoy, beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting that the movie lives up to its name. Read full review
0
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 27, 2011
It's all megalomaniacal junk from Snyder, but that isn't his most offensive move. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickMar 25, 2011
A soul-deadening mash-up of "Kill Bill," "Showgirls" and dozens of other better flicks that's not the least bit exciting or sexy, Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is what happens when a studio gives carte blanche to a filmmaker who has absolutely nothing original or even coherent to say. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 24, 2011
Snyder must have known in preproduction that his greasy collection of near-rape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy anyone but himself. Read full review
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