Good acting, horrible story

Rating: 4/10 (17 December 2017)

Intentions and inspiration aside, "Last Jedi" doesn't add up to an "Empire Strikes Back" for this trilogy. There's no romance, little pathos and no real punch-in-the-gut moment. Its emotionally sterile tone was set with "The Force Awakens," and that's proven hard to shake, new innovations and plot twists aside.