Zack Snyder responds to negative ‘Rebel Moon’ reviews: “It doesn’t warrant such a visceral response”

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Zack Snyder has hit back at the negative reviews for his Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, saying he’s perplexed by the hostile reaction to the film.In a new interview with Empire ahead of the release of Part Two, the writer-director expressed his surprise at the critical response.

The film, which has been branded “disaster”, currently holds a score of 21 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.“I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews,” Snyder said. “For whatever reason, the reaction to my movies is very polarising, and it always has been.

The movie, it doesn’t seem like there’s that much in it that would warrant such visceral responses.”Rebel Moon was originally pitched to Lucasfilm as an idea for a Star Wars movie.

It stars Sofia Boutella as a former soldier who recruits warriors from neighbouring planets to fight back against the evil Imperium when her farming colony is threatened.While Snyder didn’t let the negative reviews get to him, Boutella admitted that she deeply affected by them.“I always thought that I was fully armed to take on those punches, and then I read the critics that came down on Rebel Moon and it really affected me,” Boutella told Vulture about the extremely negative reception. “I’m just gonna be honest about it.