Rebel Moon Part 2 isn’t the epic sci-fi sequel we hoped for – here are 3 better sagas to stream

If Rebel Moon Part 1 didn’t do it for you, Part 2 is unlikely to change your mind. Check out these classics instead

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Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver, the second instalment in Zack Snyder’sStar Wars-scale epic, is getting some decidedly mixed reviews.The Guardiansays that while it’s fun, it’s also bombastic and derivative,Varietysays the story’s worse than the first one but the battles are better, andEmpire Magazinepretty much cuts it in half with a laser sword that just happens to resemble a lightsaber.

According to the film magazine, the sequel is “marginally better thanRebel Moon – Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi”. Empire isn’t exactly waiting with bated breath for more movies, describing the tease of further adventures as “half-arsed” and saying that the second movie “gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of thisSnyderverse”.

If that’s blasted a hole in your weekend viewing plans, don’t worry. There’s plenty of fun sci-fi movies for you to stream. Here are some of our favorites streaming right now onNetflixin the US (not in the US? We’ve also included where you can watch them in the UK and Australia).

The Matrix

Witha fifth part of the trilogynow in development, it seems like an eternity since the originalMatrixmovie shook up sci-fi cinema and introduced us to bullet time. But despite its age this remains an incredibly fun sci-fi actioner, and it’s largely free of the pseudo-religious talky bits that weighed down the increasingly ponderous sequels. I re-watched this recently and I’d forgotten how funny it is, intentionally and otherwise. There are some great zingers in the script and Keanu’s seriousness is often accidentally amusing. But what really makes this a must-watch are the kinetic action sequences. Time hasn’t made them any less enjoyable.

Also available on Now TV in the UK and Prime Video in Australia.

Jurassic Park

It’s easy to forget that this is a sci-fi movie because, well, dinosaurs. But of course the dinos here are science dinosaurs, brought back from extinction via the power of preserved DNA and with considerable help from scientists who weren’t at school on the day the class were taught about hubris. It turns out that if you put incredibly dangerous things in a theme park and then cut every corner that can conceivably be cut, things are likely to go very wrong in a “aaagh munch munch munch” kind of way. And despite the cast’s best efforts, you’ll spend most of the movie rooting for the dinos rather than the humans.

Also available on Now TV in the UK and Netflix in Australia.

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Godzilla

Some of the best sci-fi takes real-world fears and puts them in mythical monsters, and you don’t need to do much analysis to see why a city-smashing monster became such a key part of Japanese pop culture. Grant Edwards' take on the legendary monster movie is a lot of fun, a modern take on 1950s monster movies that delivers an exciting and satisfying climax. It also feels very much like a Spielberg movie in the way it takes time before the big reveal, making it a kind ofJurassic Parkset in an entire city.

Also available on Now in the UK and Binge in Australia.

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