To say that Sucker Punch is all style and no substance is to miss the core problem with it. It tries to do too much, but doesn't accomplish much. When you're doing a "fantasy within a fantasy to escape the harsh reality" type of story, you have to at least establish a basic connection with the character's reality. You need to know them, even if just a little, just so that when they go all dreamy and start fantasizing and escaping said reality, you understand WHERE all this dreamland is coming from. And also, it would have been a HUGE plus if what was going on in the fantasy had just a little bit of connection with reality. I'm not going into any details to avoid spoiling the "story" for those of you who haven't seen it, but that's the main problem of the movie. It fails to make us care about its characters, and instead you sit around as if you were watching a cartoon, or worse, a video game someone else is playing. I don't know about you, but to me, that's never been too much fun...

I know that many critics did not rate sucker punch very high, but by far it is the most entertaining, eye catching, action plus movie I have seen by far. The graphics and the story are great. Don?t hear what other negative people say about a movie they don't understand, everything fits perfectly and its surprising. The music gets a 5 out of 5 stars, and story line was great, but it a must see movie for movie lovers like me!!!

Just saw this in IMAX today. I was not sure what to expect after the negative critcs' reviews but positive reviews from everyone else. This movie is very well done. I liked it better than 300 and Watchmen. Great action sequences and soundtrack. I disagree completely that it had no plot or was shallow. I think that those who say that did not fully comprehend that there are two levels of dreams here - an overarching one that starts about 15 minutes in and goes until 5 minutes left, which is interspersed with the deeper levels that contain the battle sequences. Each level connects to the ones above, which is semi-hidden from a casual viewer. I can see how someone without figuring out these inter-connectivities would think there is no plot, but one has to watch more closely. In short, this movie fed my craving for adrenaline as well as my craving for a mind bending plots. I think this will be better appreciated as time goes on.

The action scenes that were advertised are few and far between. Fill the rest of the 90 minutes with plot filler.

...actually prefer them,but this had no standing once you got to the end. It was meant to be a nice wrap up,but only touched on one aspect of these womens' journeys. And although lots may want to hit that no button and scoff at me...i AM going to comment on the pandering..once again..to the sex-violence porn crowd,as well as the pedophilia crowd..in an "acceptable" venue. Could have been done without the stripper/dancer costumes and themes.Loud music. do not recommend.