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Zack Snyder’s Screensaver Space Opera Comes to an Uneventful End
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver is a dream fulfilled for Snyder, but one that ultimately isn’t that ambitious.
He’s tried to sell his idea to video game companies and to studios, and at one point came close to setting it up as an entry in the Star Wars universe (he’d end up keeping the lightsabers in his story, in the form of glowing red and blue swords). It’s a set piece filled with striking images: the mechanical knight Jimmy (voiced by Anthony Hopkins) stands in front of an enemy tank while wearing a crown of antlers; a spaceship falls slowly out of the sky in a rain of flaming debris while two characters look up from the ground; swordswoman Nemesis (Doona Bae) whirls her illuminated blades through the dusty air of a barn backlit by the afternoon sun in the slow motion that remains Snyder’s favorite trick. (“More than a weapon — it’s what we’re all trying to be,” Kora muses to her lover Gunnar, played by Michiel Huisman.”) Rebel Moon is aiming to be a space opera of a grittier, more grounded variety, but what it proves is that Snyder has no actual patience for the character development or world building that makes a fictional universe feel inhabited.
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