3/5
Scar Tissue.
122 Mins. Starring: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Staz Nair, Fra Fee, Elise Duffy & Anthony Hopkins. Director: Zack Snyder. On: Netflix.
Giving us 'Part Two' of his 'Rebel Moon' best 'Star Wars' intention and impression on Netflix, Zack Snyder leaves us with 'The Scargiver'. Reigniting the embers of 'The Child Of Fire'. The 'Man Of Steel', 'Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice' and 'Justice League' (his cut) director's epic space opera that feels like it's lifted off the pages of a graphic novel to immortality like this.is.'300', continues the legend's streaming service legacy IP like the spin-offs from his zombified 'Army Of The Dead'. Just watch, man, as the redefining 'Dawn Of The Dead' remake geek God blends genres and his own work beautifully. At times, 'The Child Of Fire' and 'The Scargiver' twofer feels like the 'Star Wars' droid fans were looking for it to be. At others, a monster mash of his own movies, or the epic fantasies of 'The Lord Of The Rings', 'The Hobbit', 'Game Of Thrones' or the 'Harry Potter' franchise, complete with 'Legend Of The Guardians' owls. It's a hoot. The only question remains, is will you wait for this direct sequel's R-rated Snyder cut to truly get the best and most brutal version?
You see in this era...or week, of Taylor's new album, not much else gets a look in (sorry, Pearl Jam). But Snyder needn't put himself in the 'Tortured Poets Department' with all those other moviemakers like Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles of 'Dead Poets Society' in that video with Post Malone. Oh Swiftie, my Swiftie. 'The Scargiver' still leaves you with something to remember. Getting read for epic battles like lords and rings of power in Hobbiton, just darker still like the eye of Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion'. Sharecropping and stream crossing has never looked this GQ, farming these grand genre co-singers for all their worth. Culminating in a classic skirmish that sees ships fall to the sea, like 'Star Trek-Into Darkness'. Heroes and villains fall down floors together that now become slip and slide game with no footholds, like the skyscrapers of 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon'. Flying forever like that runway off the sixth 'Fast and the Furious' film's London drift. Not to mention those duels with the swords of more than steel, but less than a Lucasfilm lawsuit. Dry-ice steam, looking like someone left the kettle on the stove. Yet nothing is overcooked here in this mesmerizing Motherworld of compelling, contemporary Snyder-vision cinematography. A rebel...with his own cause.
On the lighter (day battles looks like a new left turn for Zack) side of the Moon of Veldt, the warriors of Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, and the narration and robotics of Sir Anthony Hopkins reprise their roles from the first film. Boutella, a blast, armed with two guns Han would be proud of, proving she's a star. Not to mention a comic-book epic fantasy player. Huisman the heart, and the one that you want like his Baz Luhrmann and Lo-Fang Chanel No.5 classic commercial with Gisele Bündchen. The perfect pair is a cut above the rest, as they change their signature styles before the battle to serve iconic looks. Meanwhile, Hounsou, like Fisher, beautifully shows he has another note to his already terrific talent. Doona Bae continues to grip us with the gauntlets of her streaking, sabre like swords. And 'Deadpool' villain and do the right thing previous 'Hellboy' one Ed Skrein continues to have the untamed, unleashed fun of his life. Add the powerful potential of a new, young big-three in Staz Nair, Fra Fee and Elise Duffy and if the rumours and teases of this not being it are true, then this series of events and fellow films are in safe hands. It will certainly make up for the Hopkins C-3P0 gentle droid like teased disappointment. Or the charismatic vacuum left by Charlie Hunnam, only being in this part's predecessor that came mere months ago, last fall. Still, dismiss this for your latest bingeable Netflix obsession at your peril, reindeers. We don't want this Chili Pepper hot movie for your rotting tomatoes, to be scar tissue we wish you saw. Especially when it's denied and derived by sarcastic mister know-it-alls online. Critics will have their field day in this open world, but it's still a saga worthy of its own fire. It takes a village, and this Akira Kurosawa inspired picture, may not be Disney, but it's deserving of its own trilogy. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child Of Fire', 'Man Of Steel', 'Star Wars-Visions'.
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