Rebel Moon: The Scarmaker is the second chapter of the saga of Zack Snyder produced by Netflix and available from April 19th on the streaming platform (here you can find our review of Rebel Moon: Daughter of Fire). What actually seems like just a piece of a product which – it is rumored – should include four more chapters, unfortunately marks the unfortunate fate of the Snyderian project. The new chapter, in fact, it definitely did not reassure expectations that fans had placed in the franchise.
A war is upon us
After a Cliffhanger that left us suspended, which saw the team's return to Veldt (where the small colony of farmers lives peacefully) and the premonition of an epic battle to protect the peaceful inhabitants, we see our protagonists busy preparing for that which will turn out to be a real one war between a small community and the most powerful and destructive force in the universe.
Starting from these premises we can already understand the critical issues own of the script. In fact, Rebel Moon will soon prove to be a war moviefull of action and bloodshed, neglecting the more fantasy – sci-fi aspect to which we were accustomed, dragging the viewer into a disorienting and boring chaos.
The plot is lost in a chaos of predictable and predictable situations, neglecting the characters and their intentions. We continue to know nothing about our heroes, poorly characterized and with a non-existent psychological aspect, supported only by feeble and predictable backstories, each completely identical to the other.
The film betrays the ideals it promised to advance: the thousand-year battle against every type of dictatorship remains a subtext that is not at all meaningful, a shadow that is barely perceptible among the almost two hours of fierce war and explosions.
Just a lot of confusion
The various storylines appear sterile and sparse, ending up being just mere disturbing elements in an already boring development. What stands out most is the total incorrect management of narrative choices: the spectator, confused and incredulous, ends up wondering only a gigantic and underlined “Why?” of certain – senseless – decisions.
Rebel Moon: The Scar is thus thrown into the deepest of abyss (more than we expected from the first chapter), leaving the saga to succumb under the unanimous sharp blade of critics and fans.
This, not to mention the relational and emotional aspect: presenting itself as a film choralrelationships, involvement, personal events should be the most developed structures, if nothing else, to remedy structural flaws. Definitely missing aspect, neglected and suffocated by a trite and cloying action, ignored and mistreated, just like the human pleasure of witnessing connections and synergies between characters.
If in first chapter L'heroin could be considered Interestingnow his character it was completely destroyed and distortedactually doing them lose every positive characteristic. The attempt to revive her fortunes is in vain, by now the spectator has lost every shred of empathy towards Kora, to whom Snyder never misses an opportunity to entrust the task of champion of redemption, however riskily relegating her into a spiral of unforgivable errors and, without 'other, avoidable.
The shoots planted by the previous one Rebel Moon: Daughter of Fireremain suffocated in arid soil, unable to flourish. Every setup present in the previous one will come put aside in favour of a product that wants to be seenin the most literal sense of the term, but don't “feel”. Each character remains just an actor in front of the camera, disoriented and confused, coherent – moreover – with the entire structure of the film.
The premises and the trust placed were good and interesting, and the heroes, if they had been explored in depth (especially some, unfortunately, totally abandoned to themselves) would also have been deserving of affection. Unfortunately, however, this did not happen there doesn't seem to be any hope left for the rest of the saga.
The technical aspect is the only one that could be saved, if it weren't the only truly tangible thing in the entire film, incapable of bearing the weight of responsibility. Unique noteworthy trait continues to be the one already mentioned soundtrackintense and exciting, which tries to best support every type of sequence. Zack Snyder misses the chance to revive the fortunes of his colossal Rebel Moonforcing it into oblivion forever.
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