Sucker Punch Film Review

So I recently saw Sucker Punch. I know it doesn't really seem like my type of film but sometimes events conspire to force you to broaden your horizons and watch something you usually wouldn't. Although the before mentioned events were a mix up with tickets (we were originally going to see 'Source Code') and a complete and utter lack of using our eyes on said tickets where we managed to successfully read the screen, time and seat but not the incorrect name of the film that we were going to see. We were therefore thoroughly surprised when, after sitting through the adverts, the BBFC informed us that we were in fact about to watch 'Sucker Punch', a film neither of us had been particularly interested in seeing.
However realising that the mishap was almost exclusively our fault and laughing in hysterics, much to the displeasure of our fellow cinema goers, at our own idiocy we decided we may as well watch it. Having decided this we watched it with an open mind and hoped that maybe this utter fail of going to the cinema would maybe reward us with a surprising treat of a great film we wouldn't have seen otherwise.
We were wrong.
I did not like this film; at all. For starters the plot was overly complicated, not in an interesting thought provoking way but in a lets just find an excuse to dress our characters as sluttily as possible and make them fight anything we want under the guise of a coherent narrative. I'm still not entirely sure what was happening, I think it was a delusion within a delusion that all took place in a 1950's mental health institution. Simple right?
Aside from the plot that had huge consistency errors there was the fact that the film all revolved around a completely unlikable and bland protagonist of 'Baby Doll'. You were watching her fight for freedom but had absolutely no emotional investment in the story at all. All of the characters were stereotypical and uninteresting with the few vaguely entertaining ones being killed or not having much screen time at all.
Oh and then, best of all, there were the CGI heavy, action sequences where 'Baby Doll' escapes to (and obtains the necessary items to ensure their escape) when she has to dance in the brothel that is also a delusion to escape the horror of the asylum. See such an accessible storyline. I dreaded these action sequences. They dragged on and on and had no real reason behind them at all but to get girls wearing not a lot to wield huge weapons and kill everything all under the most strenuous of metaphors. Every time I tried to interpret meaning and uncover depth to this film I came up with nothing. To be fair they were beautifully choreographed and had some visionary sequences within but even the most well made fights mean nothing if there is not an interesting enough plot for them to be part of.
Admittedly I am not the target audience of this film being a teenage girl but I can appreciate good films whether they are aimed at men or women but the best films surely have a mix of both and are universal. I think this film can only be enjoyed if you possess the Y chromosome, however saying that my friend, who is the target audience, also thoroughly disliked it. This film could be said to be empowering to women as it revolves completely around female characters but their portrayal within it is to be objectified and idolised by men instead of being viewed as real people.
So all in all I would surprisingly not recommend this film unless you are an archetypal man who just wants to see scantily clad women kill things.