Let's Hope This Mistake Flies Solo

Unless you enjoy a film that gets only mildly interesting half way through, don't waste both time and money on the Star Wars franchise's latest attempt at a cash grab.

No good movie relies entirely on reused material to hold their audience. I mean, come on, a self aware independently thinking robot with enough sass to entertain for a short time. That is, until they're killed off force some kind of emotion from those watching the movie. (Rogue One flashbacks, anyone?)

With only two big name actors, Emilia Clarke (playing Kira) and Paul Bettany (playing Dryden Vos) and a single B class actor, Woody Harrelson (playing Beckett), to carry the entire film - it was obvious within the first half hour just where this disaster was headed: nowhere.

Completely sweeping aside one its key characters, Chewbacca is mostly kept to the side of the entire story, effectively used as a familiar prop in the background.

Don't even get me started on the unrealistic choices made by every character just for the sake of Han - no, and I mean no one, would willingly choose some guy they've known for a week over their own family.

It is disappointing to see such a good idea, one that held such potential, be executed so poorly. To only be able to grab the attention of the audience by creating any kind of storyline with interest halfway through the hour and forty-five minute run time leaves the viewers feeling there's both time and money they'll never get back.

Director, Ron Howard, has almost - almost - created an edition to the franchise as bad as the movies of the first three episodes. Yeah, it's that bad.

1 1/2

/ 5 : let's just pretend this movie never happened.

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