Solo: A Star Wars Story - Every Character Ranked Worst To Best

9. Qi'ra

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On paper, Qi'ra is a good character: she has strong ties to his past and is the initial reason we see just how good a person he is, and then turns into more of a femme fatale type with her true nature never quite clear.

Emilia Clarke's performance, unfortunately, just isn't really up to scratch. The stiffness to the character works for Daenerys, but here it makes her performance fall flat, with not enough chemistry between her and Ehrenreich and us unable to really buy into whatever it is she's selling.

The script does her no favours towards the end either, because by the time her betrayal is revealed we've already had the unmasking of Enfys Nest and Beckett's own turn against Han, as well as the issues with Maul too.

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