Snyder is making the most of his carte blanche from Netflix to blow tons of money on the next instalment of his own little version of the Star Wars franchise. It's all spent on explosives and CGI battle scenes, incredibly even more than the first time around, now that the tiresome business of minimal world creation and backstory is out of the way. Even the plot is recycled from the first part in an act of gratuitous auto-cannibalism, considering that its predecessor was shoddily cobbled together from the obvious Star Wars, Seven Samurai and Dune. So the same village that was previously squeezed for all the food it had now has to be defended against against a full-blown assault by the space Nazi baddies. And that's enough for two hours, apparently, once padded out with oodles of showy violence that requires no thought in terms of scripting. It goes without saying that no amount of damning reviews will kill this off and there's more to come.
3/10
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