Starring: Sofia Boutella, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Cleopatra Coleman, Fra Fee, Ed Skrein, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Martin, Cary Elwes, Alfonso Herrera, Rhian Rees
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story: Netflix sci-fi fantasy action sequel directed and co-written by Zack Snyder. Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) continues the saga of Kora (Sofia Boutella) and the surviving warriors as they fight alongside the people of Veldt to defend their new home from the Motherworld. On the eve of their battle, they confront their pasts, each revealing why they fight. As the Realm’s forces close in, bonds are forged, heroes rise, and legends are born.
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Best Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Quotes
Titus: Dark days lie ahead of us all. When the time comes, we may all have to stand together, in battle, as brothers. To succeed, there must be trust between us.
Gunnar: I had no idea what it would be like to fight. How much it would scare me.
Kora: You are afraid to die. That’s okay. Everyone is.
Kora: What was it you were so afraid of? If it wasn’t death?
Gunnar: It was you. It was losing you.
Kora: [after sharing the story of how she tried to kill Princess Issa] I’ve been living life as an outlaw ever since. I thought about letting them kill me or just not fighting. But somehow, the last words of the child, her forgiveness. I felt the only way to honor her was to run. And try to be, I don’t know, more than a weapon.
Kora: More than a weapon. It’s what we’re all trying to be.
Gunnar: It’s what you are.
Atticus Noble: [referring to his scar] Leave it. She gave it to me. When I deliver her to Balisarius, and her body is displayed in the rotunda of the Senate, I shall bare my chest. And it will stand as a symbol that it is I who brought to justice the Scargiver, as it is I that stands before my people as a savior.
Sam: [to Kora] You are our guardian wolf with bared teeth. You stand between us and annihilation. The strength of all of us together.
Titus: I’ll never surrender. You should understand that today before you choose to follow me tomorrow.
Nemesis: Once, long ago, we were a people of war. I had never killed before, never spilled blood, until I spilled my own. My pain became rage. And my rage became revenge.
Nemesis: I was reborn. But since that day, I’ve been a creature of revenge. And, yes. Yes, I will kill them.
Tarak: None of us get to choose our parents. And mine happened to be a king and queen. My father, the king, insisted on presenting our terms to the armies of the Motherworld himself. And their answer was to return his body with the promise of invasion. My mother told me then, “A boy doesn’t become a man until his father dies. Then a prince becomes a king.” That was the last time I cried.
Titus: Old stories can be hard to give up.
Jimmy: [after Kora calls him James] I was given memories of a world I will never see, loyalty to a king I cannot serve, and love for a child I could not save. But the sound of that name as you say it lets me feel, even in the smallest way, why I exist at all.
Kora: You and I are alike, designed to kill for them. Understand, their nightmare is you and I fighting together. Not because we are ordered or commanded, but to defend something we love.
Jimmy: You must know you cannot win.
Atticus Noble: Tell me what we’re trying to achieve here.
Kora: The same thing as the last time we met. I kill you.
Atticus Noble: Yes. What an honor it was. A scar. From the Scargiver herself.
Kora: [to Noble] This is your choice. Disgrace and relegation, or your head cleaved from your shoulders. Your ship serving as your tomb.
Atticus Noble: Are you truly prepared to allow this to continue in your name? It’s time, Arthelais.
Kora: [to Gunnar] I’m sorry. I won’t allow this place to die for me.
Titus: The time has come for all that you love. For your home. Protect each other, and show them no mercy!
Tarak: I thought dying in battle was all I wanted. Fighting for something. I think I was wrong. I don’t think I want to die at all. But if I must…
Milius: Together. Come on.
Kora: [after Gunnar’s been mortally wounded] Why can’t I have this one thing? Stay with me. Please.
Gunnar: No. It’s okay. Look at what you’ve done. You saved us. All of us.
Gunnar: [to Kora] I know what you are. And I love you.
Hagen: From other worlds they came to fight for us. To die for us. May they find their peace. We honor them now in the only way we can. By remembering their names, when next we bring in the harvest. A season from now, a hundred seasons. And by carrying on. By carrying on.
Titus: [to Kora] I know your name. Yes. But you were not her assassin, for the princess is still alive. You thought she could be killed so easily? No. She’s more than death.
Tarak: You wish to fight with us, robot? Help find this lost princess?
Jimmy: If what you say is true, and the princess lives, I have no choice. I serve the line of the slain King. It is my honor to fight.
Titus: To find her and to fight.
Kora: To find her and to fight.