LOL no.
This isn’t really a review. I don’t care to think deeply about this film because there isn’t much to think about. I think that people are just really riled up because it poses itself as something deep, something that was meant to be impactful. As if the film believes that it’s special and unique, and that everything its trying to do is succeeding magnificently. It’s really not. It’s a waste of time, and you should only watch it if you’re drunk and need to kill some time or something.
“Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” picks up where the first leaves off, and I don’t really see a reason why that needed to happen honestly. I guess the idea was to give more time for this big fat battle between the farmers and the bad guys, but I mean. I think that this only happened because the first one was so dense with nothingness. It’s odd, because they could have attempted to edit the two films into one, or they likely just realized they filmed too much and needed more run time and couldn’t edit anything out without making the two films worse than they already are, or maybe they’re just milking it- and honestly, that’s probably it.
And if you’re wondering what Scargiver was trying to do, then here it is in a nutshell, and taken as a whole considering both the Rebel Moon movies.
The film is trying to be really cool. It’s trying to set up this big, fantastic, bombastic space opera universe with tons of sci fi, a sprinkle of magic, some mystery, and lots of cool characters. It’s got its own little flair what with its cinematography and action bits. I get it. Tom Holkenburg is back, having remixed that one OST he made back in 2008 for the umpteenth time. There’s certainly a meaningful effort made towards making the characters fleshed out and unique and sympathetic. I get it.
It doesn’t work, though. In the two hour runtime for Scargiver and a similar length of the first one, I think that there’s such a surprising amount of nothingness. I can’t recall where the time went. It’s just gone. Stolen. Poof. And there are a few times when we get character moments- like the time Kara willingly delivers exposition to her male counterpart in the first movie, or the time Kara delivers exposition to her counterpart in the second movie, or the time Kara doesn’t deliver exposition to her male counterpart at dinner, but all the other power rangers deliver their exposition willingly to each other’s counterparts.
Then there’s the tears. Lots of crying. Not sure why. We don’t cry with them, we just cringe a bit. The Asian lady cries a lot. She’s the most likeable person, oddly, but she also dies… so… Then there’s Djimon Hounsou, who’s also got, on paper at least, a pretty compelling backstory (exposited). He cries. He also sings. More cringe.
Other people have discussed this at length, but the films are not original at all. Not at all. Every single plot point, character, and beat, is borrowed (stolen) from some other work. That part is annoying too.
I don’t know. These are bad movies. So bad. It’s not even ‘point and laugh’ bad, it’s like, ‘is it over yet?’ bad. What could be done to fix it? Uh.
Let’s stop making everyone so gritty and sad and mean and hurt. Let’s get some originality (of course). Something real. Something truly unique. It has to be big, something big enough that it’s not just a token effort, but something that really delineates this film from others. Maybe less dramatic. There’s too much slow mo, too much ‘woe is me’, too much ‘I would die for you’. We can tone down the pretentiousness. Inject some irony, some humor. The next film, if we get one, if we care to see it, needs to acknowledge how bad the first two were. Do not insult the audience by just moving on. Say you’re sorry.
And give that other asshole a shirt.
Both movies were BAD.
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