I love sci-fi and I'm always eager for a good female action lead. We get so few of them. But I truly did not enjoy watching Rebel Moon.
This was inspired by Seven Samurai. So was Adam Sandler's Ridiculous 6. Yet for all its flaws, that movie had better ideas and more fun than Rebel Moon can muster. Even the forgettable Magnificent Seven remake was better.
This movie starts with a lengthy narrative intro, then dumps us on a medieval moon, only to take a astoundingly predictable forty minutes of shallow character archetypes doing and saying EXACTLY what you'd expect.
There are no original ideas here, which the movie masks by being unnecessarily serious. That just leads it to drag out moments and constantly show its hand (and doubles down with so much exposition, narration, and flashbacks).
Technically, Rebel Moon is very impressive. But as a story, it's enormously derivative which it tries to cover by being overly self-important.
This was inspired by Seven Samurai. So was Adam Sandler's Ridiculous 6. Yet for all its flaws, that movie had better ideas and more fun than Rebel Moon can muster. Even the forgettable Magnificent Seven remake was better.
This movie starts with a lengthy narrative intro, then dumps us on a medieval moon, only to take a astoundingly predictable forty minutes of shallow character archetypes doing and saying EXACTLY what you'd expect.
There are no original ideas here, which the movie masks by being unnecessarily serious. That just leads it to drag out moments and constantly show its hand (and doubles down with so much exposition, narration, and flashbacks).
Technically, Rebel Moon is very impressive. But as a story, it's enormously derivative which it tries to cover by being overly self-important.