December 13, 2013   • Movie review: 'Sucker Punch' (2 stars)
Sucker Punch      Sucker Punch     2 stars     Directed by Zack
Snyder     Starring Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie
Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino     Rated PG-13      Zack
Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” conjoins the two predominant stylistic
influences felt in Hollywood movies these days — music videos
and video games — into an intriguing but shapeless cinematic
mess.      As the 1950s-set film begins, heroine Baby Doll
(Emily Browning) is sent to an abusive mental institution and
forced to undergo a lobotomy after accidentally killing her
sister. Before long, the institution morphs into a high-end
brothel — the psychiatrist (Carla Gugino) becomes the madam, an
orderly (Oscar Isaac) a pimp, and Baby Doll the star of the
show.      Baby Doll plots an escape and rounds up a group of
fellow inmates (Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone and
Jamie Chung) to join her. They gradually work toward busting out
by completing military-style mis