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SUCKER PUNCH (2011)Movie Reviews
Action fantasy about a young woman, institutionalized by her stepfather, who creates a vivid imaginary alternate reality to contend with her situation. Cast:Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena MaloneDirector:Zack SnyderRelease Date:March 25, 2011DVD Release:June 28, 2011From:Warner Bros.Rating:PG-13Length:1 hr 30 min
Sucker Punch (2011) played to poor reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Josh Tyler wrote for Cinema Blend, "...so completely lifeless, the characters so hollow, the connection so non-existent, that you can’t even really sit back and enjoy the visuals." • And Frank Lovece wrote in New York Newsday, "...a phantasmagoric feast for any present or former high schooler who wanted to escape into a heavy-metal album cover." More Reviews Below...
Richard Corliss, Time: WEAK "Doggedly hoping the movie would scale the heights of wretched excess... it wussed out on divine delirium; it lacked the courage of its basest pop-cultural convictions."(See all of Richard Corliss's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 988 words, 03/25/11
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: POOR(cg) "One feels for the talented actors swept into such hokum.... This is the filmmaker who has been entrusted with the next 'Superman' movie?"(See all of Jake Coyle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 625 words, 03/24/11
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: WEAK(cg) "...a recipe for a raunchy R-rated hellzapoppin' that pussies out in this PG-13 safety zone.... Talk about a pulled-punch movie. Only a sucker would buy into it."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 445 words, 04/01/11
Scott Bowles, USA Today: MODERATE(cg) "...the action sequences, scored by a blistering techno soundtrack, are top-notch and prevalent.... die-hard fans will have plenty to sift through."(See all of Scott Bowles's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 443 words, 03/25/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (13 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...interminable sequences of overscale mayhem are kinetic and elaborate but almost entirely lacking in tension, grace or visual wit."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 781 words, 03/25/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...stun-gun gorgeous, psychosexually unnerving, fantasy action-riffic... a wonderfully wild provocation -- an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 916 words, 03/25/11
Frank Lovece, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a phantasmagoric feast for any present or former high schooler who wanted to escape into a heavy-metal album cover. We mean that in a good way."(See all of Frank Lovece's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 548 words, 03/25/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...mash-up set pieces ('Call of Duty' meets 'Castlevania,' etc.) blend into so-awesome-they're-awful slo-mo monotony... makes you anticipate the action as though waiting for the bus."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 222 words, 03/24/11
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE(cg) "...provides sporadic seconds of splendid eye candy separated by minutes of muddled exposition and flat acting.... Thankfully, it's not in 3-D..."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 702 words, 03/25/11
Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: POOR(cg) "...a particularly ambitious exercise in tedium.... may have been inspired by a particularly unpleasant series of drug episodes."(See all of Liam Lacey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 542 words, 03/26/11
Josep Parera, La Opinion: MODERATE(cg) "Un festival de disparos, una orgía de violencia descafeinada y un desfile de vestuario atrevido. Pero detrás de todo ello... no hay nada más."(See all of Josep Parera's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 525 words, 03/25/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "Shut up! It's cool! Except that it's not, really; it's just a mashup of undercooked notions and half-assed lifts from existing films, books and games that makes no sense whatsoever..."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 588 words, 03/25/11
KEY CITIES (11 Reviews)
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: MODERATE(cg) "...sometimes invigorating, yet never surprising.... packed with carnage and destruction, but at the video game level of authenticity."(See all of Mark Jenkins's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 437 words, 03/25/11
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: WEAK(cg) "...hands-down the most nightmarishly awful film of the year. A field day for schoolgirl fetishists and fanboys with a penchant for steampunk..."(See all of Steven Rea's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 483 words, 03/25/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: POOR(cg) "An unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold... a humorless quest fantasy about Pussycat Doll inmates trying to escape from an insane asylum."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 592 words, 03/25/11
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE(cg) "...a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium.... Somewhere in here is a genuinely subversive girls-in-prison movie..."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 429 words, 03/25/11
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...fun to watch.... remarkable.... a film that preaches female empowerment but keeps its characters in miniskirts. It wants to have its cheesecake and eat it, too."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 565 words, 03/25/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE(cg) "...a failure, but there's so much talent on that screen that the movie can't be dismissed as a waste of time. Or at least not a complete waste of time."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 747 words, 03/25/11
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD(cg) "...energized, inventive and borderline crazy... feels as much like a computer game as it does a rock video, a grindhouse picture, and a comic book."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 526 words, 03/25/11
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD(cg) "...so vividly conceived, so deliriously bizarre and wonderful.... a head trip of the most awesome kind -- one I can't wait to take again."(See all of Rene Rodriguez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 796 words, 03/25/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (10 Reviews)
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...mash-up set pieces ('Call of Duty' meets 'Castlevania,' etc.) blend into so-awesome-they're-awful slo-mo monotony... makes you anticipate the action as though waiting for the bus."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 222 words, 03/24/11
Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: POOR(cg) "...so completely lifeless, the characters so hollow, the connection so non-existent, that you can't even really sit back and enjoy the visuals."(See all of Josh Tyler's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,039 words, 03/24/11
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: MODERATE(cg) "Snyder's clattering concoction sometimes feels less like a movie than an extended, elaborate trailer for its redundant videogame adaptation."(See all of Nathan Rabin's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 362 words, 03/24/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "Shut up! It's cool! Except that it's not, really; it's just a mashup of undercooked notions and half-assed lifts from existing films, books and games that makes no sense whatsoever..."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 588 words, 03/25/11
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR(cg) "...its like hollywood finally said to me Fuk yeah you my man are all we care about heres some awesome shit for you to get off on and everyone else can just go fuk themselves and you get to watch."(See all of MaryAnn Johanson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 981 words, 03/28/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (4 Reviews)
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: POOR "The action sequences are interminable, the acting is a joke... a movie for people who prefer video games and who may be playing them during the movie."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 195 words, 03/25/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...interminable sequences of overscale mayhem are kinetic and elaborate but almost entirely lacking in tension, grace or visual wit."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 781 words, 03/25/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...stun-gun gorgeous, psychosexually unnerving, fantasy action-riffic... a wonderfully wild provocation -- an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 916 words, 03/25/11
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "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."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,262 words, 03/24/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...stun-gun gorgeous, psychosexually unnerving, fantasy action-riffic... a wonderfully wild provocation -- an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 916 words, 03/25/11
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: FAIR(cg) "...incoherent, both ideologically and thematically.... muddled and incomprehensible.... The title proves prophetic, and you walk away dazed and confused."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,004 words, 03/24/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...interminable sequences of overscale mayhem are kinetic and elaborate but almost entirely lacking in tension, grace or visual wit."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 781 words, 03/25/11
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: POOR "The action sequences are interminable, the acting is a joke... a movie for people who prefer video games and who may be playing them during the movie."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 195 words, 03/25/11
26.9 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Sucker Punch (2011)'s reviews are separated by an average 26.9 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Sucker Punch (2011) (42 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Sucker Punch (2011)'s reviews cover 69.0% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 26,094 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 621 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 10.1 Hours After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Sucker Punch (2011)'s reviews on average broke 10.1 hours after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Sucker Punch (2011)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Sucker Punch (2011) (42 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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