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 scorePublicationBy date
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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