Ragtag group of individuals protect defenceless town from interlopers is one of the most generic premises imaginable, how much writing was really needed. The most recent sci-fi specific version was during The Mandalorian and it was still generic there too.

In my career of 20 years doing this, reviews have never equated to performance. A movie will either perform or it won’t. People will either love it and be connected to it, and I think what this movie has is an emotional drive and a core and characters that are vulnerable. And of course, there’s sequence and action and visual — it’s a magnificent looking film. But I think that at the core of it, it’s got emotion. There’s an emotional engine and a currency that runs through the film that I think works, so I’d invite people to check it out.

Well, it is nice that he believes in Rebel Moon.

I think it was a pretty weak film but not Batman vs Superman level of bad. Definitely deserves criticism for its poor story, bad dialogue, awful special effects, non-existent editing, and general lack of anything resembling excitement or a soul. Should it be critically panned and/or ridiculed? Absolutely.

I liked it.
It’s not a good movie, but it was entertaining. The action was fun. A bit too much slow mo.
I thought it could have been better as a show, but I wouldn’t trust Netflix with it

I always welcome more sci-fi, but Rebel Moon (Part One, at least) was propped up by little more than Boutella’s cleavage-in-slow motion, IMHO.

2 hours and only half of the story and the pacing was still a mess. No character development among the main cast except the lead. The most ridiculous part was they got all the good guys captured and no one thought to disarm them. Bloodaxe and Nemesis both had their weapons on hand as soon as they were released. Like most Snyder movies, all style, no substance.