This one's been on my list for a while, and I finally sat down and watched it yesterday. Not the biggest Zack Snyder fan, but I've enjoyed a couple of his films so I thought I'd give it a shot.

  
Honestly have no idea why this movie got review bombed so bad. The acting was superb from everyone, but Oscar Isaac and Vanessa Hudgens in particular really stood out to me. I honestly think this may be Isaac's finest performance of all time. He carried such an interesting presence.

  
The visual style was absolutely on point. Say what you will about Zack Snyder, but he's an absolute master when it comes to cinematography. This film is absolutely beautiful. The VFX in general is also very good (with the exception of some absolutely godawful muzzle flashes, though I suspect that those might have been a stylistic choice, since >!the muzzle flashes in the Cabaret world were much, much better than the ones in the Battle-Fantasy world!<).

  
The soundtrack was, for lack of a better word, orgasmic. Every song was perfectly chosen and implemented into the film superbly. Along with cinematography, I think this is another area where Snyder really excels.

  
The story was fairly easy to follow, despite it being rather difficult to explain. I thought it was a really well written, captivating story. I never felt bored as many reviewers did.

  
The extreme negative feedback and low ratings for this movie really baffle me. Snyder's statement about wanting it to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you're just loose and going nuts" feels like a really weirdly specific and strange thing to say. A lot of people ended up comparing the movie to video games, though personally it gave me stronger fairy tale vibes than video game ones.

  
The fact that people claimed that the movie is "misogynistic" is honestly hilarious to me. It's about as misogynistic as Blazing Saddles is racist. It's literally a feminist liberation power fantasy. The men are mostly presented as oafish,  incompetent, or irredeemably evil, and the women are portrayed as tough, feisty and independent thinkers (>!though I did think that Sweetpea of all people being the only one to escape was thoroughly disappointing!<).

  
All in all, I'd give the movie a solid 9/10. 

(Cue the onslaught of comments about Zack Snyder dickriding lmfao)

Just watched Sucker Punch