The biggest compliment I can give Rebel Moon: Part Two is that I didn't fall asleep this time.
I have never seen a movie so desperately wanting to be not only a franchise but a Wiki fandom hotspot with its world, characters, science fiction names, etc. We have seen failed attempts at a cinematic universe before, but this is something else.
The problem is that the characters and the world of Rebel Moon are not interesting. It's not original either, as you can pick up on many familiar things you have seen in other movies. It's no Lord of the Rings, Dune, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones.
There is a scene where all our heroes sit around and share their backstories. After someone finishes their back story, they might as well say “OK, your turn.”
And when characters do bite the dust, I didn’t care. You couldn't pay me to care about these guys.
There is an R-rated cut for Part One and Two that Snyder is trying to drum up hype for, but I highly doubt there's a good movie somewhere on the cutting room floor. And why is there a director's cut when this is a streaming release and not a theatrical release? Why didn't they release the R-rated cuts to begin with? Because nobody is campaigning like they did for Justice League. So, people have to watch (in total) a six-hour-long movie. Why!? So stupid, lol. And bold of them to think that I am watching both films again.
Zack Snyder is just like George Lucas, not a talentless hack, but he needs to stop surrounding himself with ‘yes men’.
Review by rosecroix23BlockedParent2024-04-22T20:29:16Z
Editor: how many slow-mos?
Zack Snyder: Yes!!!!
This movie would be normal length (or shorter) without all the slow-motion scenes and that probably would’ve been better for the pace.. who the f thinks showing someone refilling his water-bottle in slow-mo is a good idea?
It makes you think „what will the Zack Snyder cut be like? 4 hours slow-motion only?“
Also the overly melodramatic protagonists just get me not caring for them as it’s all too … well, melodramatic and over-the-top.
All this movie does is too in-your-face and wannabe. And the story is just a bit too dumb, just a „star war“ over a farm, ridiculous.
I sometimes think that some filmmakers just use such lame plots to have a reason to throw in fights, explosions and visual fx. It’s not like before anymore where fx were used for world-building and immersion of a great story.
Like someone wrote in a review for the first part, this movie seems like a Star Wars fan fiction of a high school nerd. This time there even was kind of a lightsaber fight, though in bad .. and they had the colors wrong, good is blue and red is evil, not the other way around. XD
If they really do more of this, I will pass. I watched the first and wasn’t impressed. Now I watched this hoping it’ll get better, but it didn’t.