Director: Zack Snyder
Year Released: 2011
Rating: 2.0
Comic book-and-video game-inspired fluff has a batty teen (Emily Browning) stuffed into an insane asylum where they're pretty fancy-free with those lobotomies, but just before she gets the old chisel hammered into her frontal lobe, she delves into a fantasy world full of guns and Nazis, robots and pervy types. As with other 'dream movies' it gets cute with its structure, leaving it to be a fragmented affair best experienced with a gamepad: Browning and fellow cuties (including Abbie Cornish and Jena Malone) have to obtain five Magical Items (a map, a lighter, a knife, fire and a mystery object) and battle through multiple levels/stages to acquire them, complete with boss fights at the conclusion of each round. Snyder still can't seem to go five minutes without either slowing the images down and/or playing a famous pop song (covered by other musicians), and as supposedly 'feminist' allegory, this could have used a little reworking (if Snyder was indeed going for satire as he claims, he needed to adjust the tone a tad).
