Kate McKinnon is JarJar

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2019)

From the outset this is one of those movies that you want to enjoy. A movie verging on greatness, no less.
An original story... that's still good. Strong and believable title role actors. And, without spoiling the story, a wholesome merit of morals that leaves you feeling that your time wasn't wasted in watching this...
Except for Kate McKinnon. A one dimensional JarJar Binks that destroyed the willful suspension of disbelief that story tellers rely upon.
This story doesn't quite reach the greatness mark. I'm not a great enough writer to know what would bring it there. But McKinnon is the most obvious weak link whose replacement, even by the likes of Sam the Eagle, would be an improvement.