After 15 years, Sucker Punch is still swinging at air Sure, Zack Snyder, it's the culture's fault that your movie is like this. With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over time. Why couldn’t he be the one to finally solve the problem of hypersexualized female characters in the action genre? This is the conundrum of Sucker Punch, a movie that was roundly mocked when it debuted just as fourth-wave feminism was about to explode, but has enjoyed an unexpected cult resurgence over the last 15 years. Though Snyder claimed that “Sucker Punch is a fuck you to a lot of people who will watch it,” it’s remarkable how unchallenging most of it is.

Source: Punch March 23, 2026 21:46 UTC