Helen Mirren's dry wit offers a suitable counter to Brand's off - the - chart antics but Jennifer Garner isn't given nearly enough to do and the show's finest asset, Luis Guzman, is woefully underused.
A dry - witted droid called K - 2SO (voiced by Firefly «s Alan Tudyk) offers flashes of light relief, but this a surprisingly grey and gritty film where key characters are constantly under threat and sometimes die.