‘Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire’ review: Zack Snyder rips off ‘Star Wars’
nypost.cominto a black hole of misery with the gloomy “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League.” And now the diabolical director is zapping the enjoyment out of outer space, too, in “Rebel Moon — Part One: Child of Fire” on Netflix.
Running time: 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence, sexual assault, bloody images, language, sexual material and partial nudity).
On Netflix.While that winding, buzzword-filled title sounds like a cheap-o parody of a science-fiction epic, this is about as unfunny and unadventurous a movie as you could possibly imagine.What “Rebel Moon” really amounts to is “Zack Snyder Strikes Back.”Our Tatooine rip-off is an orange-hued world called Veldt where a group of uptight grain farmers push around dirt all day long and then gather in a meeting house to speak like they’re Moses from the Old Testament.
They sleep in what resemble 1800s Irish peat houses that are incongruously souped up with electric sliding doors and fluorescent lights.
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