This overblown Netflix space sequel to Rebel Moon is no Star Wars opera

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Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 2, lacks the humour of Star Wars or the pomposity of Dune.

“When I deliver her to Belisarius and her body is displayed in the rotunda of the Senate, I shall bare my chest, and it will stand as a symbol that it is I who brought to justice the Scargiver.” If you think actors have it easy, try saying that lot out loud.The speaker is Ed Skrein as Admiral Atticus Noble, the jackbooted villain of Zack Snyder’s overblown space opera, set in a galaxy far, far away, which is definitely not the same one that supplies the backdrop forspin-off a decade ago.

As seasoned Rebelheads will recall, the admiral was slain in the previous feature-length instalment of the saga, which premiered on Netflix last year. But after a stint in a rejuvenation chamber, he returns more sneeringly psychotic than ever, bent on revenge on the warrior heroine Kora , a former ally who has turned against the Imperium, Snyder’s equivalent to the Galactic Empire.

To call this a blatant rip-off would be accurate but not especially damning. After all, just about any modern fantasy blockbuster could be described as a mishmash of familiar elements – and this could equally be said of the original 1977, conceived as a homage to the pulp science fiction tradition dating back to the 1930s or earlier.

If the story is hard to take seriously, there’s also little or no deliberate humour – which is certainly a departure fromisn’t that much worse than the current competition: if it lacks the brute force impact ofmight not seem quite so impressive if it had been released in instalments on Netflix.

 

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