Reply To: Rebel Moon

[JefferiesMaine]

your review didnt go far enough in describing what ails this movie (Snyder wants to make a third movie since the finale is open ended).  Trouble is, for all of its ambition and story setting, the movie is a low, low budget production incapable of giving us  the scope of a galactic war.  The second part (Scargiver) completely demolishes what little scope the first part managed to show us a galaxy at war.  The second movie feels like a rogue military ship or a pirate ship picking a fight with a small band of farmers in a remote corner of the universe.  It doesn’t connect with the overall story, or what little connection there was is lost.

The movie Civil War released at the same time as Rebel Moon this month in theaters, with a fraction of the budget of Rebel Moon manages a far more exciting and visceral war battle scenes, far more convincing, at the finale, than any battle in Rebel Moon.  There is more for me to explain why Rebel Moon is a dud but then I would have to write an essay and it wouldnt be fair to the other commenters from the official movie reviews at Rolling Stone and big name publications