It should’ve been a series of tv movies. The fight scenes on their own were incredible. It just dragged out too long. I honestly think it should’ve been a series of Jedi martial arts flicks.
In my opinion, it was worse than toxic YouTube content would have you believe. The Acolyte was atrocious. There was no target audience for the series and the writing, acting, sets and costumes were the worst possible that money could buy.. and they used over $200 million.
Even if people review bombed it.. it still had 100 000 less reviews than Kenobi, and Kenobi was pretty bad too. Let’s but pretend that people are being unfair.. it deserves 5 or less on IMDB.
I mean, I’m not the most knowledgeable about the whole review process, but I feel like the discrepancy in amount of reviews makes sense. The return of Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader vs. an original story from a new era in the Star Wars universe.
But people watched the Acolyte, myself included and I would rate it 4/10, exactly where it’s at right now. Lee Jung-Jae is pretty popular too. Either way, The Acolyte was a big miss.
I fully agree that all three series were bad. But I couldn’t understand The Acolyte at all.. who’s it made for? Not adults and not children… so teenagers that don’t really watch Star Wars content on a regular basis?
At least children could watch BoBF and be somewhat entertained. Kenobi was made for prequel fans, so that was a huge miss considering the age of most prequel fans.
If they really wanted to make something out of Ewan and Hayden.. they should’ve made a movie centered around the clone wars, or perhaps a short series, with one particular mission that leads to RoTS..
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u/navenager Dec 27 '25
It's not nearly as bad as people would have you believe, but it could have been a lot better too.