Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire
Came out; 2023
Time; 2 hr 13 min
Watched: Netflix
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of strong violence, sexual assault, bloody images, language, sexual material and partial nudity
IMDB Rating; 5.7/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Sofia Boutella as Kora
Djimon Hounsou as Titus
Ed Skrein as Atticus Noble
Michiel Huisman as Gunnar
Bae Doona as Nemesis
Ray Fisher as Bloodaxe
Charlie Hunnam as Kai
Anthony Hopkins as Jimmy (Voice)
Story Line.
When a peaceful settlement on the edge of a distant moon finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors - outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge. As the shadow of an entire Realm bears down on the unlikeliest of moons, a battle over the fate of a galaxy is waged, and in the process, a new army of heroes is formed.
Thoughts:
This movie had potential, but it was very boring. I had a hard time watching this one.
They were trying to go for a star-wars/star-trek/Dune type movie but it just didn't work.
It had a great cast, and the acting was good, but it just didn't hit right.
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
On the backwater moon of Veldt, the sadistic Admiral Atticus Noble arrives on behalf of Motherworld, a militaristic interstellar Imperium fueled by centuries of conquest and war. He explains that he and his men are hunting for a band of rebels led by the Bloodaxes and will need the village to supply them with grain. The village's leader, Father Sindri, refuses. Noble beats him to death and says he will return in ten weeks for an amount of grain that will leave the village with too little to survive. Noble departs, leaving a handful of soldiers in the village. One of the villagers, Kora, witnesses Imperium soldiers preparing to gang-rape a villager, she attacks and kills them. Kora tells the villagers that Noble will massacre the village once he returns and gets what he wants unless they mount a defense.
Kora departs to the nearby port town of Providence, bringing another villager named Gunnar who has sold grain to the Bloodaxe rebellion before. During their journey, she reveals to Gunnar that she once served the Imperium as a soldier, having been brought up by a general named Balisarius after he killed her family and destroyed her home planet. She was then promoted as the bodyguard to Princess Issa on the Motherworld but failed to protect the princess on the day of her coronation when the entire royal family was assassinated and Balisarius declared himself Regent. As she explains it, Issa was expected to usher in an end to the Imperium's conquests and the Regent has instead renewed its conquests.
When they get to Providence, Kai, a smuggler and criminal, agrees to take them to recruit Titus, a disgraced Imperium commander. On the way, Kai takes them to recruit two additional warriors: Tarak, a tamer of beasts, and Nemesis, a talented swordswoman with robotic arms. They then find Titus in a drunken stupor. Titus agrees to fight for them as well. They then use Gunnar's previous dealings with the Bloodaxe rebellion to meet their leaders on the planet Sharaan, siblings Darrian and Devra. Darrian agrees to defend the village and brings a small handful of rebels along with him. Devra, on the other hand, considers a fight against Noble's dreadnaught, the King's Gaze, hopeless and a waste of their resources. After they depart the planet, Noble arrives and wipes out its population for assisting the rebels.
Kai tells Kora that he has been moved by her quest to abandon his illicit life as a smuggler. He just has one last shipment to drop off to leave that life behind him. Kai takes the group to a trading post and shackles them with exoskeletal restraints just as Noble's ship arrives. Kai reveals he had always intended to betray them for the bounties on their heads. Noble identifies Kora as Arthelais, a wanted fugitive who betrayed the Imperium. Kai attempts to force Gunnar to paralyze a shackled Kora. Gunnar instead frees Kora and kills Kai. The other warriors are unshackled as well. In the ensuing battle, Darrian is killed, and Kora throws Noble off of a high platform. The surviving warriors return to Veldt together.
Heavily injured but alive, Noble is recovered by Motherworld forces and revived after having spoken on an astral plane with Balisarius, who demands that Noble end the insurgency against him and bring Kora to him alive so he can execute her himself.
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