Film Name: 月球叛军：火之女 / Rebel Moon / Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
1, The reason to watch this film is for the director Zack Schneider, the same reason to watch his last film 《Army Of The Dead》 which was also all bad reviews. As a face-blind person, what I like is that the actors in his film, all of them are strange and different from the norm, with a high degree of recognition, so that I, a face-blind person, can clearly know who is who, without looking at it and seeing it messed up.
2, all say this film like star wars, but I do not feel, this is clearly the old story of the seven samurai, the village is in trouble, come out to find all kinds of strange and strange back to protect the village, just put on a star wars coat, the core is not star wars at all. This kind of old-fashioned story, as long as the characteristics of the strange warrior inside the fancy, or can attract people, old-fashioned some times does not mean outdated, sometimes also means effective.
Moreover, this one even added a reversal, the strange and unusual people who were collected with great difficulty were finally killed by the bounty hunters in one go. Seeing this, I’m starting to understand the point of view of a lot of reviews that say this story has problems.
3, I think I saw the actor who played Ge Lao in the Twelve Hours of Chang’an, that’s that General Titus.
4, although watching Zack Schneider’s film in slow motion is a bit tired, but many of his camera angles are still very unique, let a person have a kind of “although a bit rustic but still passable” feeling.
5, the heroine is the most wanted, followed by the bounty hunter running around with a few other wanted criminals are drawn together, resulting in the final packing a spoonful of results, think about it and find it interesting, this is not a legend, this is a fairy tale.
6, the bounty hunter did not have a long time to be proud, was a peasant Jedi counterattack, engaged in a hand of anti-killing, this part can be called “an interstellar peasant’s ambition”.
7, have seen a lot of interstellar war sci-fi film, this film on the laser gun battle scenes to do relatively good, at least you can see the laser hit on the iron plate, melting the effect of the iron plate, than those in the star wars look at the fake special effects a step forward.
8, the final battle always end with fists, feet and cold weapons, as if the previous laser guns and laser cannons are all floating clouds, which is also considered a cliché of the writers.
9, There are 6 decent characters left at the end, plus the dead rebel leader Bloodaxe (or the renegade bounty hunter), making it exactly 7. So I’d say it’s a Seven Samurai trope film, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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