Critics reviews

Marginally better than Part One, [The Scargiver is] still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse.

The film is egregiously long for what it is: simply Seven Samurai dipped in a thin glaze of rebels-vs-empire interstellar intrigue... What fun is a film that tries to force you to consume more content? That’s not art. That’s blackmail.

The script by Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten trips over its aspirations whenever any character talks. There’s not a single authentic conversation, just exposition dumps and soliloquies... The film has plenty of death, yet little life.

[The Scargiver] is somehow even worse [than Rebel Moon] and barely justifies its existence on a fundamental level... [It is] so meanderingly boring, you mercifully want to fast forward to the fighting and overwrought conflicts if only to get somewhere narratively, however vacant and empty it will be.

There is something baldly impressive about Snyder hauling an unbranded fantasy up from the dust: it’s just a shame it turned out to be such boggle-eyed claptrap.

Much as I might have hoped that the second and more concentrated half of Snyder’s sci-fi “Seven Samurai” would somehow atone for the sins of its previous chapter, I wasn’t exactly shocked to discover that it lacks any trace of a pulse from the moment it starts. Five months in the morgue can have that effect. Be that as it may, the sheer lifelessness of this Sora-like spectacle still manages to defy even the lowest of expectations.

As a playground for Snyder’s favorite bits of speed-ramping, shallow-focusing and pulp thievery, [the film is] harmless, sometimes pleasingly weird fun... The whole bludgeoning enterprise is so daftly sincere, you could almost call it sweet.

Somehow, the second part of Zack Snyder’s hopelessly derivative space opera manages to be even more tedious and less inventive than Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child Of Fire... This movie is preposterous and not in a good way.

Not only does neither part of Rebel Moon work, but The Scargiver is such a downgrade that it could prove difficult for the franchise to bounce back for more. The story narrows itself so comprehensively that it scrambles to reach for a dangling thread in a forced closing conversation.

[The Scargiver] is a sci-fi action fantasy so familiar and generic, so borrowed from and inspired by other things — it’s the 1977 “Star Wars” meets “Seven Samurai” meets “The Lord of the Guardians of the Rings of the Galaxy” — that it’s already the theme-park version of itself.

The first film was roundly criticized for its lack of memorable dialogue, plot elements or characters, and this one doesn’t do much to improve those aspects... The extended battle scenes with which Rebel Moon concludes prove undeniably impressive, which is for the best since they’re the film’s raison d’etre.