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Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Sucker Punch reviews itself with its title -- in fact, it does leave the viewer feeling sucker-punched. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: So thoroughly labored, and panders so relentlessly to adolescent attitudes and fantasies, and is so thoroughly and stridently humorless, that it kind of sucks out your soul while you're watching it. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: There is nothing here to enjoy, beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting that the movie lives up to its name. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Map! Fire! Knife! Key! (Well, eat drink man woman to you too, honey.) Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Snyder has described it as "Alice In Wonderland with machine guns," but it's more like The Pussycat Dolls Present Steampunk Kill Bill, only more assaultive and pandering than that description suggests. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Gun-toting hotties combat assorted villains and their robot henchmen in this tawdry, repellent action fantasy. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared," is the movie's ad slogan. Indeed. You will be unprepared for a film packing this much confusing crud into a little less than two hours... Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: The suckers here are the poor mugs who leave their dollars at the door. And for what? A seedy, desaturated, overstimulated simulation of a real movie. Schlock treatment for comatose gamers, and a bomb with a bright pink cherry on top. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: If the goal was sensory overload and audience stupefaction, he has succeeded indeed. Snyder apparently is offering lobotomies to all. Step right up. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Wild, loud, fetishistically stylized, and...numbingly dull. Read more
Laremy Legel, Film.com: My personal rule of film enjoyment goes a little like this: you can be miserable or pointless, but you can't be both. Sucker Punch works hard to be both. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: Snyder likes to think that his Russian nesting doll of a concept is enough to excuse its hollow center. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: One feels for the talented actors swept into such hokum. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Zack Snyder's storytelling skills remain in question in his latest CGI spectacular. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: 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 more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie is a head trip of the most awesome kind -- one I can't wait to take again. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: The movie spins out of control, until it collapses in a heap, senseless. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: For pure filmmaking - characters taking up half the foreground in close-up while events unfold behind them, action speeding up or stopping on command, a soundtrack of classic rock remixed or redone into droning trances - it's remarkable. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Zombie soldiers, dragons, cyborgs, doesn't matter: Snyder is just a big boy with lots of toys. These, unfortunately, include his actresses. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: "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 more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Hands-down the most nightmarishly awful film of the year. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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 more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: An indecipherable, hypocritical mess that proves you can fill a movie with scantily-clad women with big guns and it can still bore one to tears. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: 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 more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I can't be sure whether it's brilliant or idiotic, although I'm pretty confident it's both, and not always in different places or at different moments. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In the end, Snyder confuses going ugly for getting serious, and he destroys his movie completely. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A series of extravagant computer-generated adventure scenarios linked by grim mental hospital plot, Sucker Punch represents a particularly ambitious exercise in tedium. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It provides sporadic seconds of splendid eye candy separated by minutes of muddled exposition and flat acting. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Snyder pulverises our senses with derivative digital images and obvious musical choices. But his failure to delineate the levels of 'reality' is confusing and self-defeating. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: You've never seen a movie like Sucker Punch. And depending on your entertainment preferences, you may not want to. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: [The] mash-up set pieces 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 more
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: Director Zack Snyder and his production crew clearly had great fun envisioning this swords-and-corsets fantasy. Few others are likely to approach their level of enjoyment. Read more