Sucker Punch
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_20
A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.
Ok so I'll break this down for you. The young girl known Babydoll is committed to an asylum. She escapes to an alternate reality all in her head to come up with an escape plan. She teams up with 4 other girls to plot the escape needing to collect 4 different elements from around the asylum in order to escape. Her alternative reality is that of her and the girls being dancers in a brothel. Everytime Babydoll dances, the alternative reality kicks in, and she and the other girls find themselves on death-missions to retrieve the items they need to escape. It's at this stage that fantasy sinks in, but this is also arguably the best part of the film as the action is awesome. Throw in great action with a super-sexy (Aussie) female lead, and you've got a winner.
I'm not going to give too much away and ruin the rest of the movie for people, but I freaking LOVE this movie. My only regret is not seeing it at the flicks when it first came out. I only came across it while browsing Netflix and it was recently added.
*SPOILER WARNING*
What surprised me about this film is that, even though it's an American film, the 5 leading characters consisted of 3 Americans, and 2 Aussies. Every American movie I've seen that has mixed
and American leads in it has resulted in the American leads surviving, whilst all other leads are killed off. This brilliant movie was the other way around though. All 3 American leads were killed off, and the 2 Aussies were the ones that survived. It is a brilliant movie, so I have no idea how it flopped at the box office. I freaking loved it... and I'm not even into fantasy movies. This one nailed it as far as I'm concerned.
IMDb gave this movie 6/10, however that is probably reflective of due to it being 'flopped' at the box office. I would also like to point out that I'm not sure how they can define this movie was one that flopped due to the $82,000,000 budget came back with a return of $89,792,502.00 world-wide. As far as I'm concerned this movie did very well.
I did find a plot-hole however which is to be expected in fantasy movies, but that can be overlooked. My final score...
10/10.