Sucker Punch

It’s "Sin City" meets "Shutter Island" in a fantasy excuse for sexily-dressed women with cutesy names and deadly weapons to slay giant samurai robots, fire-breathing dragons, and steam-driven corpse soldiers. Set in the 1950's, an evil stepfather commits his stepdaughter to a mental hospital where the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. Next, 5 girls have 5 days to obtain 5 objects in order to escape their private hell hole. The actions scenes are an E-ticket ride in Fantasyland. However, the storyline transitions are the weakness of this highly stylized film with some great quotes. Alien was disappointed that it was more flash than substance. So who is being sucker punched here?

Alien gives it 2 "dance of seduction" stars out of 4.