Get the latest gossip

‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: The Second Half of Zack Snyder’s Sci-Fi Debacle Is Almost as Disastrous as the First

Any hope for the second part of Snyder's Netflix epic has been dead since December, but it's still shocking just how lifeless this movie feels.

The film had to articulate why Noble’s dreadnought would threaten such an unassuming moon, and then visualize a solar system’s worth of planets as Kora and her farmer crush Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) traveled from one soulless CGI landscape to the next in search of mercenaries who might be convinced to help defend Veldt from the Imperium’s forthcoming assault despite the slimmest possible hope for survival. Surprising as it might be that this truncated, PG-13 version of Snyder’s eventual director’s cut still finds the time for long stretches of agriculture porn, I suppose that’s a byproduct of his inexplicable decision to squeeze every supporting character’s entire backstory into a single, dramatically moribund sequence in which they sit around a table and regale each other with identical stories about how the Imperium killed everyone they loved. ‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’It’s nice that Hounsou gets to sing a lovely battle hymn in a hybrid of two African languages, just don’t expect to learn anything you didn’t already know about the degenerate ex-general he was cast to play, or to see Titus’ unique skill set reflected in the choreography of the skirmish that dominates the second half of the film.

Get the Android app