Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Not bad, but not great either.
I took my 10 year-old to see it. It's the first time I've been to see one of them in the cinema. All the others I've seen for the first time on DVD over the past couple of years as he's been watching them with parental supervision.
What can I say? The script has more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire - the one Jakob describes beneath his spoiler is huge, but they are everywhere. The underlying story seems to be kind of jamboree bag of cod mysticism, half-baked ideas from Tolkein's and JK Rowling's discarded notebooks, and lots of REALLY LOUD explosions. I've seen more engaging characters, and acting, on In The Night Garden, particularly poor Carrie Fisher, whose character seems to spend most of the film wandering around wearing the expression of someone who has just realised that she has put a red sock in with the white bedding. And every major character is clearly half-human, half-cat, using up their nine lives every half hour or so, yet having still more available.
Can you guess that I really didn't like it?
