Review: ‘Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire’: Zack Snyder Does It Again

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire released on Netflix on December 15th, 2023, burdened with an overly-long title and an unfortunate lack of cohesive plot or characters. Rebel Moon represents Snyder’s long-awaited crack at a space opera, packed with sneering villains and epic CGI battles, endlessly hyped by Snyder’s fanbase, but ultimately doomed to be remembered as yet another generic, shallow, derivative, and utterly forgettable film.

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Review: ‘Army of the Dead’ May Be Zack Snyder’s Most Fun Film

In the opening credits of Zack Snyder’s newest feature Army of the Dead, you can nearly feel the director’s giddy smile stretching across the hedonistic melee. In Las Vegas, flesh-eating zombies are beginning to outnumber the casinos. And they’re consuming unsuspecting tourists just as quickly. Cannibalistic showgirls prowl for prey. Slot-machine junkies bundling up their remaining pittance dodge the newly infected. A dimwitted Elvis impersonator, wig askew, looks blankly over the carnage as the real Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas” plays in the background the zany bloodshed. It’s the rare instance where a film’s climax occurs in the first few minutes.

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