Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 19, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 19, 2024
Set to Tom Holkenborg’s bombastic score, Gregorian chanting, and endless pew-pew-pews, Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver roars and rampages, yet its drama can’t match its aesthetic pomposity. Read full review
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The GuardianJesse HassengerApr 19, 2024
Rebel Moon almost certainly didn’t need to be two multiple-cut movies. It probably could have gotten by as zero. But as a playground for Snyder’s favorite bits of speed-ramping, shallow-focusing and pulp thievery, it’s harmless, sometimes pleasingly weird fun. Read full review
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Slant MagazineJustin ClarkApr 21, 2024
The Scargiver feels like a loosely threaded series of grand ideas and sincere emotional beats that require so much more connective tissue to thread together into an actual narrative worth investing in. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryApr 19, 2024
Alas, the characters and dialogue remain clunky, which shouldn’t be surprising given how derivative almost every beat of this is, down to the robot voiced by Anthony Hopkins. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussApr 19, 2024
Does its conclusion make up for the gluten overload that was most of “Rebel Moon”? Well, the series’ not-at-all-original theme is redemption, so that depends on whether you’re in a forgiving mood or sufficiently wowed. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 19, 2024
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver is a storytelling mediocrity, but as spectacle it has tumult and rhythm. Read full review
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The New York TimesAmy NicholsonApr 19, 2024
A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, The Scargiver isn’t good, but it sure is something. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 19, 2024
Snyder provides an ample display of the visual flair and skill for action that have endeared him to legions of fans who exhibit so much dedication that they’re willing to sit through numerous versions of his films. Read full review
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TheWrapWilliam BibbianiApr 19, 2024
Even if a superior version of 'Rebel Moon' does come out eventually, that doesn’t make these versions any better, and they’re the only versions we have right now. They’re both shallow and generic space operas, distractingly derivative of better films while adding very little to the mix. Read full review
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Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 22, 2024
Turn away from your screens. Go for a walk. Start your own wheat-threshing collective. Anything but suffer through this. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 21, 2024
While Sofia Boutella, playing outlaw warrior Kora, brings a balletic elegance to her fight sequences, ultimately this is disappointingly generic stuff. Read full review
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Paste MagazineTrace SauveurApr 19, 2024
If watching Rebel Moon—Part One was over before it started, Part Two is a miserable exercise in unearned hubris. Read full review
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EmpireDan JolinApr 19, 2024
Marginally better than Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 19, 2024
But nothing here or in the previous instalment will make you give the slightest fig who wins. Yes, the world of Rebel Moon is richly imagined, even if its origins as an aborted Star Wars project still remain far too obvious. In place of storytelling, though, it’s built on unwieldy lore dumps: we’re given hundreds of details about this galaxy far far away, but no reasons to care about any of them. Read full review
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SlashfilmJeremy MathaiApr 19, 2024
Snyder once again displays his usual knack for crafting the occasional breathtaking visual and colorful splash page — a kiss silhouetted by the Veldt equivalent of magic hour, a spaceship foregrounded by an eclipsing star, and a stunning tableau of lasers crisscrossing in the heat of battle are memorable highlights — but his insistence on serving as his own director of photography continues to hold him back at every turn. Read full review
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Total FilmNeil SmithApr 19, 2024
Snyder’s sci-fi epic stumbles towards the finish line with an underwhelming Part Two that feels more like a Part One-And-A-Half. Read full review
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The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 19, 2024
The Scargiver is at least basic enough to feel relatively inoffensive; the first film’s uncomfortably vague deployment of racist and sexual violence has been reduced to a single reference to the empire’s hatred of “ethnic impurity” (never to be picked up again). Read full review
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Screen RantRachel LaBonteApr 19, 2024
The issues from the first installment are still there — and, in some ways, they only get worse. Read full review
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IGNHanna FlintApr 19, 2024
The second part of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon space opera, The Scargiver, delivers a half-baked conclusion to a well-trodden story with flimsy character studies and lacklustre action. Read full review
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