It has been awhile since I was this bored watching a movie.

I was not a fan of Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire. Dare I say that I am even less of a fan of this new movie, debuting on Netflix this weekend.

The group of characters that had been assembled in the first film ala Seven Samurai return to the village that they had sworn to protect from the totalitarian power of the Imperium.

The biggest problem is that I don’t care about any of these characters which make all the slow-motion action nothing more than just lasers, gun and fights. They meant nothing to me.

There was a scene where the characters sat around a table and told something from their back stories, details that apparently were not important enough to give us in the first movie when we were introducing them. It is truly some lazy filmmaking. Exposition at its worst.

There are so many bloated action scenes that, admittedly looked good, are just there to show off the visual work, but are filled with stupid decisions and eye-rolling levels of senselessness.

So much slo-mo.

Zach Snyder directed this in his most Zach Snyder-esque style. It is lacking in just about everything except action (which does get tedious) and CGI. There is not much more after that.

1 star