While the Snyder cult will rally to defend this, I am not and have never been a fan. While he's done a few good movies; 300, Watchmen, the flawed Man of Steel, most of his movies are too slow, too filled with plot holes, unimaginative use of slow motion and one dimensional characters. The poster advertising it is certainly derivative of any star wars poster. Rebel Moon falls into much of this. There isn't one original idea is this obvious rip off of: Star Wars: A New Hope, Fury Road, The Seven Samurai AND The magnificent Seven among others. The small craft that invade the farm planet (shades of Battle Beyond the Stars!) look like the Firefly-Class Serenity. The dreadnought looks like a submarine. General Noble dresses like a Nazi and, as it turns out, is like a cheap version of Darth Vader. The Hero, Kora,is ok, but once again, the audiences is expected to believe that a slight woman can kick the crap out of men nearly twice her weight? Why not cast the woman who played Cara Dune in a role like this? Anyhow, She sets off with a farmer to find people to fight. We get the general in hiding, the burgeoning resistance, the rogue pilot and so on. Still, for all this, its vaguely entertaining, even if it doesn't, as I said, have an original idea in it. Akira Kurosawa must be rolling at how many times the Seven Samurai has been rip... er homaged. (And the most recent version was a terrible movie). So I'm giving this a five. It's a very average film. As usual Snyder uses way too much slow motion. Maybe he should watch more John Woo films-but I wouldn't want him ripping them off! So in the end, it's worth a view, but if I never watch it again, I'll be fine with that. Part 2 coming in 2024, and then we'll likely get a six hour (there seems to be quite a bit of character building missing here) cut of each movie, or perhaps one mega cut of 12 hours! (Yes, I'm poking fun at his overlong, over dull, silly extended cut of Justice League).
