With its grim dystopian worldview mixed with allegorical fantasy sequences and thoughts about the subjective nature of reality, there was only one living director who could have pulled Sucker Punch off -- unfortunately, that director is Terry Gilliam, and he was probably on another continent when Sucker Punch was put to film. Instead we are left with Zack Snyder, a man who made his mark with slavish adaptations of critically acclaimed and violent graphic novels (Watchmen and 300). This is the first time we've been served a heavy dose of Snyder's brand of stylized violence without the strength of another writer's brilliant storytelling propping him up, and the results aren't pretty.