“Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver” is here, and we are here to talk about it all! What started off as Zack Snyder’s homegrown Star Wars with “Rebel Moon 1: A Child of Fire” has met its end with disappointment as the second part got a mere 13% on rotten tomatoes. Amidst all the slow motion and lens flare, Snyder’s failure as an engaging writer is still visible. Although the movie serves its purpose, it gives you something new and visually engaging to look at in every frame. Ironically, its visual extravagance cannot make up for its lack of “show, not tell.” The sloppy dialogue and lack of character building are carried over from Part 1. But before we continue to beat the dead horse, let’s talk about what’s good.
Rebel Moon, being a Snyder film, has everything a Snyder film has. Absolutely beautiful visuals that appear as if pulled straight out of an illustration board. A very compelling universe that has life in it. We have Ed Skrein’s Atticus Noble. a performance one can look up to. Anthony Hopkins voice for the robot Jimmy is well received. Given the underwhelming action sequences that precede it, the finale feels grander than the rest of the movie combined.
Despite all of this, Snyder could not get fans to take in the inorganic, lengthy expositional monologues that are scattered all over in hopes of providing substance to the characters. Spoler alert: they fail. All we can say is that Snyder’s ambition for this Kurosawa meets Star Wars universe seems to be dwindling, as neither critics nor fans are showing any love. It is quite alarming for Netflix, as it is yet again a heavy jab from the reception side. It has paved a streak of high-budget, low-quality projects that seem to put extravagance over substance, whether it be Extraction, The Gray Man, Red Notice, and now this duology. Perhaps a change of strategy is needed at Netflix, or it might just lose credibility from its viewerbase.
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