That’s what Snyder’s fans finally got. His long-awaited sci-fi epic arrived on Netflix yesterday Rebel Moon: Part One – Born of Fire, which wants to be the director’s answer to Star Wars. There was, of course, a big halo around the project beforehand, the streaming platform wants to build a big franchise around the film, and the well-known director has already talked in advance not only about the second part, which will arrive in the spring, but of course about the director’s cut, which is supposed to look completely different from the current film. Which is a thing that never quite fills us with optimism. And that’s not only because of bad reviews from abroad, but also because of Zack Snyder’s not-so-successful directorial form. So, was the creator able to surprise us with his news, or did he just fulfill “expectations”?
As the IMF sees it:
He is a rebel! Unfortunately, he spends more effort on his holy wars on social networks than on shooting movies. I don’t want to support his crusade with an overly long comment, this way we’ll have an image of penmen who can’t think of Snyder’s name. But the reality is much more prosaic. Rebel Moon is a wannabe blockbuster. With average tricks, would-be epic shots, but framed in a more or less TV look and often relying on not-so-good actors and the boyish fantasy of a fan of space operas. Unfortunately, Snyder is not Besson to carve a distinctive Fifth Element out of reminiscences of science fiction scrap.
Even Robert Rodriguez isn’t in trying mode anymore, so even though his film is reminiscent of Alita (and The Brave Seven) at times, there’s never that extra “something” in it, whether it’s Eastern inspirations or French weirdness. It’s just an overpaid fanfic , in which the characters stumble from planet to planet, and at the end there is a fateful, but for the rest of the story (remember, it’s only the first half) a completely superfluous confrontation. Star Wars for the poor in spirit, Netflix’s consolation prize for those who wasted this year were waiting for Dune. And a useless item for everyone else. Happy and merry, but please prefer reruns of the movie candy you like.
As Mr. Hunger:
I really didn’t expect it to be such shit, but I’ve been trying for about an hour to find something that would be at least a little good on Rebel Moon. Well, let’s face it, the masks and Ed Skrein playing the villain to the extreme are pretty cool. But otherwise, it’s absolutely awful. If someone lived until recently in the hope that Snyder is a lousy author, but he could still be at least a passable producer, then this hope will be lost here, because almost nothing went right in Rebel Moon. The questionable quality of the tricks would be the least of the problems, as well as the cheap ripping off of almost every major sci-fi film from Star Wars to The Fifth Element, Flash Gordon to The Matrix or Jupiter Is Coming.
The bigger problem is that, audiovisually, the whole thing is uglier than the fifteen-year-old Mutant Chronicles, that you can’t even see a fart in the action scenes. Snyder-the cameraman still relies on the already regularly annoying slow motions, but above all he doesn’t even manage to properly shoot the characters who are currently fighting, and that none of the heroes here have a personality or motivation. Not a believable motivation, any motivation, because recruitment of galactic badasses is usually done in a “Will you help us? – I don’t know, rather not. – How about revenge? – OK, so yeah” . As a result, boring characters run around the screen for two hours, headed by a perfectly bland Sofia Boutella, everything takes place in a disgusting environment and it looks like a twenty-year-old science fiction that was already bad back then. Given that Snyder was given a blank check by Netflix to do whatever he wanted and he created this, it’s obvious that he’s completely screwed as a filmmaker.
As Rimsy sees it:
The die-hard fest has apparently arrived on Netflix, and I never want to see anything new from Snyder ever again—and it’s definitely not going to happen voluntarily. The Rebel Saga’s opening is the essence of the worst and most mocked of Snyder’s directorial arsenal. Inappropriate overuse of speed bumps, glaring illogicality, a game of fatalism imbued with embarrassing pathos and, perhaps most of all, creative lack of judgment. The bad guy is a tie-breaker, there’s a classic interplanetary bedekr, the negotiations are at the elementary school level, and sentences like “We are more than the shackles that bind us!” sound serious.
Is this supposed to be the awaited Star Wars tribute/spoiler/update? Copying several story motifs, depicting different alien races, trying to give the illusion of a vast and varied world, and even getting away with lightsabers – no, that’s not really enough to make this expensive-dressed parody (which wants to be a new variation on Seven brave, but story-wise it’s more on the level of Star Crash) turned out to be a tempting start to a new sci-fi saga. If I were Lucas, I’d sue Snyder – not even for stealing so many ideas, but more for the fact that his name will now have to appear often next to the bloated wall.
Expect a review soon.
2023-12-23 14:00:00
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