Every Zack Snyder Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Sucker Punch

The true out-and-out dud of Snyder's career, Sucker Punch is a well-cast, visually stunning mess of a film, as the director finds himself completely out of his depth helming an emancipatory feminist fantasy tale...with samurai giants.

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As much as Snyder insists the film is a self-aware commentary on the misogyny prevalent in "geek culture," it's only a half-convincing precis at best, given that he takes myriad opportunities to leer at his scantily-clad female ensemble. In slow motion, of course.

The action sequences dazzle, for sure, but the whole is strangely hollow, ensuring Sucker Punch often feels like watching a glossy video game cutscene when you'd rather just play the damn game yourself.

Hardly a disaster - and at "just" 109 minutes, positively restrained for the director - but also the most emblematic evidence that Snyder is indeed a style-over-substance filmmaker as charged.

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