Rebel Moon - Partie 1 : Enfant du feu

A test of the degree of imagination shown in a sci-fi film is whether it could equally have been done as a cowboy movie. "Rebel Moon Pt. 1" could have, and the movie would have been "The Magnificent Seven" (1960, 2016, 1998-2000 as a TV series, or indeed "Seven Samurai" of 1954), because the plot is err.... identical. And I expect the plot of the second half will be identical too. So if you have ever seen any of those and a spaceship taking off, you don't need to see this movie (OK, some of the spaceship imagery is very good). But I have to wonder whether anyone was actually paid for "writing" the script :-)

Hello,

Like evreyone who reads this (sorry i'm french and yes I hated Raygun), finally we have Zach Snyder. I saw his first cut and was unimpressed (hated the first version, too disney like for me).

But, his director's cut, the decription and details of the characters has finally caught up to me. I mean, we did not have any ulteriors or superiors motives for any characters and it was a pain in the neck. But with the director's cut, finally we can relate. Regarding the "violent" scene, finally we left Disney and went for a more "gore" approach (everyone has its limit). Personnaly, it wasn't gore enough knowing Snyder past work. However, the character evolution was spot on. Basically, watch the director's cut, it is so much better than the original one.

Watching this film, it felt like it was created by committee and written for an audience that the director thinks is not particularly clever.

There were so many elements in this that seemed like they had been added because someone thought "hey wouldn't it be cool if there was a... *cool flying bird you can ride* or *a bar scene that looks like the one in Star Wars*

The script also needed some work. The parts of the story were just thrown in as backstory or someone explaining the bleeding obvious. A little more respect shown for the audience would have allowed us to know some of that through watching, understanding or less didactic dialogue.

On the plus side, it looks great. Visually there is always great depth and detail. I enjoyed it enough to want to see the next one, although I suspect my guesses about major plot developments will be correct.

As an other reviewer wrote, there are wooden language, wooden expressions and wooden dialogue.

The first ting I noticed in the movie was the words the actors spoke seemed like they had been written by a teenager... so many pointless words.

Then there where the actors speaking the words, they just seemed wierd and emotionless.

Then there are the action scenes. There are a lot of them, and they could have been really good. But the editing are just a bunch of normal speed, slow speed clipping to make it look good, and the bad guys just stand still doing nothing while the "hero" spends minutes moving around in the open...

CGI/Greenscreen galore.. but very well done. So this is perhaps the strongest part of the movie.

Waisted and nonsense slowmo sections... there are so many of them... and they are so pointless and gives nothing to the movie. There are movies and directors that know how to use slow motion sequences in a movie, and then there are this movie and director, that did not take that class... it's just a waist of time.

In summary, if you are able to ignore all the writing, dialogue, acting/directing issues... its a passable scifi action movie.

The movie could have been so much better, because there is a decent enough story underneath.. and they obviously had enough money to do what they wanted...

I'm assuming Netflix payed for this. So I'm guessing that there where a big payday for writer/director and no requirements for quality on the delivered product. So they just cut from the budget anyone that could have given the director feedback on the uality issues.

Like many others I was hoping for something good and a bit different and felt a bit let down. I found it lost itself in connection, there just seemed to be something missing however I now know what was missing and what was missing was literally half the movie. I decided to watch the directors cut out of curiosity as I felt it may have added what I felt was missing and wow just like magic it all seemed so much better and made a lot more sense almost like it was an entirely different movie with some character and story background. I think the short version was an attempt at trying to cater to a commercial audience but in reality the long version should have just been the original. Much better 7-6 stars for the editors cut but only 4-4 for the original. Although it's much better, still lacking something.