Zack Snyder’s Netflix film Rebel Moon has stirred up all kinds of negativity from critics – but got a much different reaction from audiences.
Netflix executives, along with anyone who worked on director Zack Snyder’s new space adventure movie Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire, probably swallowed hard when the first critics’ scores for the movie hit Rotten Tomatoes. Days ahead of its debut on the streamer, the closely watched Tomatometer score for Rebel Moon stood at an appallingly bad 23%, with reviewers lambasting everything from the blatant ripoffs of movies like Star Wars and The Magnificent Seven to an overuse of slow-mo. One reviewer went so far as to pan it a “mockbuster.”
And then, right on cue, the audience reviews started rolling in to Rotten Tomatoes once the movie hit Netflix on Thursday. And wouldn’t you know it! They told a completely different story. “Don’t listen to the critics, they are shilling for Disney,” reads one verified audience review on Rotten Tomatoes. Adds another verified audience review, “Please see this movie for yourself.
