CONTRARY to popular belief, the Jedi Order are not knights in shining armour, and The Acolyte is here to prove it, but not before it clunkily plods through six episodes of robotic dialogue, ill-conceived screenplay and contrived plot twists.
Set roughly 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte kicks off after Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) is confronted and killed by an assassin. A witness to the crime leads the Jedi to arrest Osha (Amandla Stenberg), a former Jedi Padawan-turned-mechanic.
The only problem is the assassin was not Osha but her twin Mae (also Stenberg) who is targeting three other Jedi Masters, including Osha’s former master Sol (Lee Jung-jae). Pulled into the wild goose chase to bring her homicidal sister into custody, Osha is taken on a journey that reveals how her family, a coven of witches, died.
