Zack Snyder unveils his passion project – the Star Wars film Seven Samurai A tribute to various studios over the years before it was finally picked up by Netflix and its deep pockets. Rebel Moon Part 1: Child of Fireand the second installment, due out in the spring, has a total budget of $166m (£131m). With such outstanding inspiration and Snyder, the man behind it. 300 AND The keeperExpectations from the script, direction and cinematography must be high.
But it’s as if someone gave these millions to a five-year-old boy to live out his fanfiction fantasies without any semblance of originality, coherence or pride. This is not an homage, but a bawdy copycat of a space opera where the plot, characters and even the vocabulary are painfully familiar.
Cora (Sofia Boutella), the perfectly proportioned protagonist of dubious origins, lives in a remote farming community on the moon with a scarlet sunrise that rivals Luke Skywalker’s Tatooine. But this territory is under threat from guests from the Empire, well, excuse me, the Empire. Cora emphasizes her point with glowing looks out of thin air. Zoolander script and speaks almost exclusively in platitudes such as “Kindness is a virtue worth dying for” and “What happened to honor?” She also has a backstory that doesn’t feed us so much as throw us under water every half hour as she gazes moodily at the horizon and the music swells.
After a lot of annoying talk about the grain harvest, reminiscent of the endless conversations of the Trade Federation Star Wars: Episode 2Cora runs off with handsome farmhand Gunnar (Michel Huisman) to gather a group of misfits from different planets to fight against their homeland. You could say it’s a rebel alliance. First, through the brutal bounty hunter Kai (Charlie Hunnam), they find a ship, yes, in a cantina, with a whole bunch of strange creatures from galaxies far, far away. They are joined by a degenerate general, a warrior duo, a samurai wielding “laser swords” and, last but not least, the handsome prince Tarak (Staz Nair), who rides a griffin and looks good bare-chested and wearing baby oil. jumping up and down rocks in slow motion. Oh my god, there’s so much slow motion here.
There’s a nice villainous performance from Ed Skrein as Atticus Noble, an SS soldier (with a British accent, of course) who wages war on the galaxy on behalf of a true tyrant (Darth against his Emperor, if you will).
And I have nothing against slow-mo itself (or even baby oil). But put together in this way, with such tediousness and without any new context or attempt to go beyond the simplest characterization, this collection of clichés and cardboard cutouts is less than the sum of its parts. It’s outrageous and shamelessly boring. Please have mercy on us Part 2.
Source: I News
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