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‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: An Even More Rote Story, but a Bigger and Better Battle
The second chapter of Zack Snyder's intergalactic epic is just as derivative, but the climactic showdown sizzles. And guess what? It may not be over.
Yet compared to most of the media, I was kind to “Rebel Moon — Part One.” Released just four months ago, it was an oversize banquet of fanboy fast food, not a film to take seriously, but I couldn’t deny that I found it highly watchable, unlike the countless critics who seem to feel that Zack Snyder has become The Enemy Of All They Stand For. Djimon Hounsou as Titus the fallen general-turned-recovering warrior, Doona Bae as Nemesis the cyborg sword master (who wields a weapon that, I’m sorry, is literally a lightsaber), Michiel Huisman as Gunnar the handsome but slightly wimpy love interest, Anthony Hopkins as the voice of Jimmy the droid — there are no hidden levels to these characters. At the end of “Part One,” Kora, leading the motley crew she’d gathered to fight the Motherworld, had won a duel to the death with Atticus Noble, the evil admiral who, as played by Ed Skrein in a fade topped by scary Roman Nazi bangs, is like Freddie Mercury as a Shakespearean sociopath.
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