There are shades of grey here i don't even want to contend with. Fascinating really. Hard to look away from once it gets you under its spell.

It gets a lot wrong. It also gets a lot right and is by far the most entertaining Alien movie since Aliens in '86. I wish it had more confidence in itself. The callbacks were totally unecessary.

There's also a weird charisma vacuum with the characters. The most relatable being the android and not the actual humans. Cailee Spaeny and the Android aside, the others brought nothing to the table.

It's a good looking film with good looking set pieces that at least tries to match the miraculous double hitter of Alien and Aliens.

It tries hard and i ire that.

Watching Sucker Punch is like watching a friend you don't really like play a videogame for two hours. Making things worse is the stranger sat between you both aggressively wanking over his playlist full of shit reworkings of your favourite songs.

Sucker Punch is not only as bad as you've heard, it's worse.