Once again looking for entertainment in all the wrong places. I've never seen Firefly and was insufficiently invested in the characters and scenario to get into it. (I guess that holds for all of Joss Whedon's output, leaving aside the outlier Toy Story. He wrote and directed this.) Things go all Blake's 7 (from the 1970s!) at the end but it seems like most of the cast got their contracts renewed. The dialogue and geeky awkwardness is trying. Notionally for Chiwetel Ejiofor who did what he could with not a lot.
Roger Ebert: three stars. Fan service. Manohla Dargis. Superior to the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Right, OK.
