Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Maklocke

Review by Maklocke

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire

2023
★½

Watched 23 Dec 2023

This film is a mess, and a boring mess at that.

Barely anything in this film lands, around half of the runtime is small side-quests to recruit allies and I use "quests" in the loosest terms possible because most of this just is walking up to someone on a new planet and asking and then the new character saying yes and moving on.

No character has any form of personality to latch onto with half of the main cast barely having like 5 lines of dialogue each they all end up being all design, no substance. (Im sorry Charlie Hunnam, im still a big fan)

Zack Snyder's films for better or worse usually at least nail visuals but Rebel Moon still misses in this section a lot of the time, most shots a ruined by this constant blur that makes everything look cheap. On the positive side, a lot of the alien designs DO look good, from a weird little brain guy, to a weird big squid guy, to a weird heckin spider lady, they're all cool and are the only things keeping me into the film.

Also the robot design (while completely underused and barely in the film) looks great and really fits into the scenes its in, and the scorpion grabber devices are sick and I pogged every time.

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