With the second part of Rebel Moon – The Scargiver, Zack Snyder managed to achieve what so many people doubted – that he could create an even more boring and difficult to watch film.
This tape has everything one would expect from Snyder’s work: epic-looking slow-motion scenes, heroic music, grotesque fight scenes, muscular men, high-spirited tales of dignified death, and tragic, misunderstood characters.
Because of the saturation of all these elements, however, the film looks like a large and hollow grotesque. It has the same feeling as overeating a very sweet chocolate – heaviness, bitter taste in the mouth and doubts about the life choices made.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver was released on April 20th on Netflix and has since become Zack Snyder’s lowest-rated film ever, with just 18% approval from critics and 53% from viewers on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a score of 5 ,2 out of 10 on IMDb.
If you want to relive the Rebel Moon 2 trailer, you can watch it here:
Let’s start with something positive about the film – there is no reason to worry about spoilers, because you have already most likely seen it at least 10 times, just in other productions. The plot is easily predictable and the surprises are annoying rather than emotional.
The Scargiver picks up where the first film A Child of Fire left off – the heroes have defeated the evil Admiral Atticus Noble and the protagonist Cora has cracked his skull.
Only, as we saw at the end of the previous film, the admiral is placed in some sort of resurrection machine borrowed from The Matrix and brought back to life – angrier and more evil than ever. And now he heads to the peaceful moon of Velt (the place with the farmers from the first movie) to get his revenge.
Meanwhile, Korra and the great fighters she has assembled arrive on the Velt, only to find they only have five days before the enemy comes. During this time, they must harvest the crops and prepare the defense of their colony with the help of the only surviving soldier from the Holy Mother.
And in the evening to drink, dance and tell each other sad stories from the past about how they all became such emotional wrecks. Even the robot, voiced by Sir Anthony Hopkins, has his own tragic story…
The conversations between the characters in most scenes sound forced – a combination of many monologues that happen to be said one after the other.
Then comes the big fart, which takes up most of the film.
And here Snyder is not afraid to “borrow” from other films and stories, such “chopped” moments from “Star Wars”, “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Matrix”, but also from the historical murder of Guy are particularly distinctive Julius Caesar.
It wouldn’t be such a problem if the borrowings were combined into a common, meaningful and interesting story. Instead, at times the viewer can hardly explain the actions of characters that lack any logic.
However, this is only a negative if you went looking for logic in this film. If you chose it because of the action, the epic scenes and because of the name of Zack Snyder, you will hardly have such a drama with the mess of “inspirations”.
However, the endlessly bad dialogue is hard to ignore.
They were a key element of the first film as well, but here the weak lines are taken to a whole new level. The conversations between the characters sound like they were written by a teenager obsessed with the idea of his not yet particularly mature masculinity.
It’s all heroism, dignified death, brotherhood and archetypal roles. Out of nowhere, motivational speeches pop up that only produce a state of severe cringe.
Meanwhile, the villains are so stereotypically evil that at one point they look like cartoons rather than real characters.
The truth is that after the movie is over, you probably won’t remember the names of at least 2/3 of the main characters. And that says a lot about the characters themselves.
For me, the biggest weakness of Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver is that it seems clichéd to the point where there are no full-fledged characters, only schematically constructed images – roles, not personalities.
Trying to tell their pasts doesn’t help much because the viewer gets nothing but epic flashbacks where they each talk a little about themselves.
It’s more compared to the first Rebel Moon, when each of these great fighters got even less exposure, but it’s certainly not enough to make us care about the characters.
Thus, until the end of the film, one hardly remembers the names of the characters, and associates them with one leading feature – the main character; the farmer who is her boyfriend; the general; the Korean with the NON-laser swords; the prince without a kingdom; a rebel… There may have been someone else, but they are all easily forgotten.
If there’s one good thing to say about Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, it’s the fight scenes.
It’s no surprise that Snyder has turned a solid influence in this direction, with the fight choreography in his typical style – interesting and impressive, if not particularly practical, with brutal violence, lots of explosions and slow-motion scenes to emphasize the important points. moments.
Beyond that, the acting is again nothing special. Perhaps we should mention Sofia Boutella, who also manages to be the most impersonal and boring protagonist in a long time.
For an actress who has been in Hollywood for so many years and has appeared in so many productions, Sofia Boutella should have become a superstar by now and only be invited to lead roles. It’s not like that. Maybe there’s a reason for that…
You just can’t believe she’s the heroine she claims to be – an invincible fighting machine, broken emotionally by the evil empire, now finding a real family for the first time in the small farming community.
The rest of the cast isn’t much better, but with a script and direction like this…so much.
The end result is a pompous, at times downright infantile film that tries to be a testosterone monster, but is actually a boring slog that you forget two hours after watching it.
Perhaps the saddest thing is that Snyder leaves the ending open, so just look in a few years we will see another sequel to this movie misunderstanding.
Our verdict on Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is expectedly weak – one, one coffee.
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