10 Most Polarising Films Of The Decade (So Far)

2. Sucker Punch

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Few directors split audiences and critics like Zack Snyder. A number of his films could have joined Suicide Squad on the list, but here we have his most divisive of all.

Described by the director himself as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns", Sucker Punch is a steampunk fantasy-action hybrid which follows a young woman who is committed to a mental asylum by her abusive widowed stepfather.

Because this is a Zack Snyder film, she envisions the institution as a brothel and teams up with four other stripper-prisoners to break out before the doctors have the chance to lobotomise her. What follows is one trippy action set piece after another.

Critics called it misogynistic, supporters hailed it as feminist, and box office bean counters around the world called it a commercial bomb.

The one thing everyone agrees on is that the home release director's cut is vastly superior to the version which hit cinemas, but this is where the consensus ends.

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