Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The current and only version of Rebel Moon released on Netflix at the time of this review . . . is an astoundingly average and derivative film. All the negative reviews by critics and top ratings by Zack Snyder’s diehard fans made me believe this film would either be extremely terrible, have some disturbing content, or perhaps be innovative in some surprising ways. In the end, I’m left wondering why on earth this gained such divisive reactions. Snyder isn’t pushing…
If, like me, you checked out review scores before watching this film . . . all I can say is that this defied my expectations. Don’t listen to the “top critics” on Rotten Tomatoes and just read the reviewer scores, this film promotes a rather insightful anti-colonialist narrative that challenges basic assumptions about the strategic use of mercenary companies for hire as part of US foreign policy directives, challenges the exploitation of the Middle East’s resources for US government profits…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My first experience watching anything about Predator was maybe one clip of this film on Youtube and then watching some random action sequences of Predator vs Alien. When watching the latter, I could never understand why both franchises were so revered as I saw annoying, stupid human characters mostly living and being ignored by highly advanced aliens killing each other and it made me wish the humans didn’t even exist in it, because they were obviously only surviving due to…