Good start, but then it gets ruined

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

entertaining storygreat actiongreat soundtrackFor me, this movie was a lot of fun since I really like Snyder's visual style and action scenes. It's like a dream fantasy shifting fast between dark, weird, hilarious and dramatic parts. And in the end, what do I need more than a samurai with a mini-gun? Ah, maybe some gore.

The Directors Cut version reveal much more details about the story. Dont know why they didnt made to the final cut cause was important to the understanding of the whole story. The idea dance to escape realitty, with kick ass imaginary fights is amazing. Strong female characters plus the super hot Oscar Issac.

I really want to rate this movie ten out of ten although I know it definitely doesn't deserve it. But I wanna... For quite some time I was thinking how to write smart and competent review and I've got nothing so far. I can not hook you by short summary without spoiler risks. To abstract some deep thoughtful philosophy out of it I really don't want to even try. Even if there are some I didn't notice them. This movie is simply pure fun of epic proportions. There are some artistic cadres, trippy weird amazing and jaw dropping mindfaks, there's drama and pathetic, there's action and CGI intemperance, sanatorium and whorehouse, little bit of Kill Bill and a bit of Hobbit, alternative history, train hijacking, samurai and trench battles against Germans, incompatible epochs mixed in same scenes, there's everything and everything is awesome. To lure mail audience, there's bunch of hot girls in sexy battle outfits, armed to teeth with swords and machine guns, who, in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Charlie's Angels and Matrix style, jump out of WWII airplane on running trains and medieval castles to butcher and riddle everything from people to zombies, robots, orcs, and eventually dragons. Complete madness. Zack Snyder is the king.I do not like Emily Browning in leading role (my only objection to this movie), but Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone and divine Carla Gugino nailed it with both performances and looks.9/10

Cinematic non-entity Emily Browning stars as an orphan living in some Gothic version of 1950's America. Problems with her ridiculously evil stepdad lands her in a mental hospital (or home for the "mentally insane" as the film calls it ... distinguishing from a home for the physically insane I suppose), from which she escapes by ... perhaps ... imagining that she's in a cabaret/brothel where her and a troop of other girls have to dance for the customers. From this fantasy reality she occasionally slips into a further fantasy reality (no, I don't know how that's supposed to work either), where her and the other girls fight dragons and Nazi robots using swords and machine guns. There are elaborate parallels between the 3 levels of reality, but it would be a lie to say I stopped caring because I really never started caring about any of this. It's difficult to imagine another case where so many resources were spent on so little.