It was far to tempting at the outset of this list to just list 10 different flaws from Sucker Punch. Easily Zack Snyder's weakest film, this film is so unbearable for one reason and one reason only: the script. Zack Snyder isn't known as a director who gets behind a writer's desk often, and with Sucker Punch it is clear why that is. The only film on his entire filmography that's purely original, and the only one that doesn't make a lick of sense. With this script Snyder tried to have his cake and eat it too - a film where he can stage scantily clad women fighting robots and dragons, but also have a deep and emotional story about a girl trapped in a mental hospital as well. There are films that have paired fantasy and realism well (Pan's Labyrinth comes to mind), but Zack Snyder is not a nuanced enough writer or director to make either of these halves of a film work. The script is divided between the convoluted mental hospital/brothel storyline and the narratively devoid fantasy storyline so that both detract from each other rather than complementing each other as they should. Not only does this film fail in almost every way possible with its narrative, it also bungles the characterization and dialogue so badly that the third act One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest twist comes completely unearned and meaningless. And don't even bother trying to work out why Scott Glenn appeared everywhere - it's quite likely even Snyder didn't know what that was supposed to mean. Like this article? Let us know in the comments section below.
Self-evidently a man who writes for the Internet, Robert also writes films, plays, teleplays, and short stories when he's not working on a movie set somewhere. He lives somewhere behind the Hollywood sign.
