Reviewer questions Abbie

http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/archives/2011/03/25/what_ the_hell_is_abbie_cornish_doing_in_sucker_punch/Once the movie was thirty minutes along and I was a prisoner in my middle seat with entranced dudes around me I allowed my mind to wander in order to stave off the loss of IQ points. The one thought that kept coming into my mind was, what the hell is Abbie Cornish doing in this film?

This is not the type of film she usually makes or better yet, what she should be making. She is beyond talented and while she was the most interesting piece in the horrible experience of Sucker Punch she was not able to elevate it, it brought her down. Now I know that she has got to be under pressure from her “people” to make commercial movies. I can only imagine the conversations. “Abbie, you have a small window here to make some movies as an “ingenue.” You need to take advantage of it. So them you can be sexy. Show them you are not so serious. Show them you can be commercial. Once people get to know your name, know that you can do more than artsy films, you’ll be able to make some money and then come back to the artsy films.” I can only imagine that this is the reason why she made this film and Limitless. It couldn’t have been for the script. Could this script have been anywhere near the script of say Bright Star? I don’t think I am going out on a limb by saying, no way.

But I have to say that this film was a serious miscalculation on all their parts because it just sucks. What good does being in a sucky movie that will get horrible reviews do for a young actress like Cornish. I just don’t see the upside. It can’t be the pay day because I am sure that none of the young women in the film were paid anything decent. This is an effects movie made for guys who just want to see scantily clad young women kick mysterious monsters asses.

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