150 Word Review: 'Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire' (2023)
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Burger King serves a shameless rip-off of McDonald’s Big Mac called the Big King. It’s fine.
I thought about this while falling asleep to metalcore auteur Zack Snyder's tedious sci-fi spectacle Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire, which Snyder originally pitched to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars movie. They passed, but Netflix didn't. There are space fascists, laser swords, and a droid voiced by Anthony Hopkins.
The plot is Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Sofia Boutella stars as a brooding nobody with a secret who recruits a motley crew of galactic warriors to defend a small planet from Ed Skrein's Darth Gestapo.
Rebel Moon is boldly derivative. Chaotic. There’s a griffin! It made me want to rewatch recent space operas, like The Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending. I’m not a Snyder hater. His movies are motorcycles: loud, powerful, obnoxious, but he's sincere. He should abandon the slow-motion. It's a creative crutch.
RANDOM RANKINGS
Top 5 Zack Snyder Movies
5. ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole’ (2010)
4. ‘Watchmen’ (2009)
3. ‘300’ (2007)
2. ‘Man of Steel’ (2013)
1. ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (2004)
NICE SHOT
Bae Doona is the cyborg swordmaster Nemesis, who wields a pair of off-brand lightsabers.
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Will not watch.
You can't copyright basic ideas. This is why all the truly original ones that come out of Hollywood keep getting ripped off.