Sucker Punch is the latest feature film from director Zack Snyder of 300 and Watchmen fame. Unlike those comic book adaptations, Snyder not only directs here, but also developed the original story and co-wrote the screenplay with the relatively unknown Steve Shibuya. This meant Snyder had extensive freedom to envisage the kind of narrative and visual style he wanted for the movie, but without the kind of strong existing [...]

If cinema were a drug, Hollywood would be the dodgy manufacturers who dilute the good stuff with inferior formulas (i.e. rom-coms) containing potentially lethal ingredients (i.e. Katherine Heigl). Every once in a while, however, they tease us cinema junkies with a clean-cut piece of entertainment that delivers an invigorating and engaging high with no nasty side effects. A film like Limitless, for example.