(This phenomenon also provides a clue to a major plot event towards the climax of the film, as well as looking rather gruesome a few seconds later when a character gets targeted by heavy blaster fire.) Vice-Admiral Holdo’s crowning moment of awesome was beautiful, its visuals enhanced by the complete lack of sound at the key moment. The ‘bloody’ footprints on the salt flat made for some extremely stark colour contrasts when the red under-layer was exposed as the white crust was disturbed. I look forward to seeing how they cope with working together in the next film the First Order military have demonstrated they don’t respect Ren and Hux has shown that he’s willing but incapable of breaking away from domination by Ren. Kylo Ren and Hux were both particularly good, with both of them being deeply flawed individuals, neither of whom are actually well-suited for their roles. The characterisation of Rey, Kylo Ren and General Hux were high points, along with the 30-year check-in on how Luke’s character has been developing. Or maybe Johnson just tacitly acknowledged that midi-chlorians are bantha-balls. I wonder if this was because Luke wasn’t taught properly and so understanding of midi-chlorians never really made it through into the modern setting’s understanding of the Force, after the Emperor killed off virtually every other Force-user during the age of the Empire. There were loads of opportunities to mention midi-chlorians, but they never did. However, the subplots felt like the writers were scrabbling around for something for Finn and Poe to do (other than each other, which didn’t actually happen – sorry, Tumblr). The main plot of the film explored Rey’s personal journey, and Kylo Ren’s parallel degeneration. Don’t get me wrong – they were great characters, but they were created for Episode 7, not Episode 8.
The other big let-down with The Last Jedi is that it was saddled with the same characters as The Force Awakens. But at least slavery was actually portrayed as a bad thing in The Last Jedi, rather than just an obstacle in Qui-Gon Jin’s discovery of Jesus Skywalker. I guess that that’s what Rian Johnson was going for at times, with the child slaves and the racing and all that, but there’s no reason to bring the bad bits along. While it served to expand on the First Order/Resistance era of the Star Wars setting, some parts of it just felt a bit… well… prequel trilogy. The entire final battle scene (which was, in itself, very good, and contained some lovely call-backs to the Battle of Hoth) should have been brought forward thirty minutes.įinn and Rose’s mission to Space Monaco was a bit of a missed opportunity. This film was 2.5 hours long, but with the rejigging of a couple of plot points, could have been dropped to 2 hours a film-length chase scene isn’t exciting unless it’s got the intensity of Mad Max: Fury Road. The film’s biggest weakness was its poor pacing. (That would be The Phantom Menace, largely because it was so close to being a good film, but failed abysmally at almost every stage.) To tell what it attempts to do is completely difficult to say in a couple of words because they keep changing as the film progresses to its end and I got to say, it was worth waiting for another great film of this year.This wasn’t the best Star Wars film, but it certainly wasn’t the worst. Like literally, they are completely unexpected and aren't forced onto the film unlike every other film that were released this year I see as a joke.
What makes this film truly deserves the score are the surprises it gives us.
It was worth all the hype it deserves which makes it another one of the best of this year and the only movie with such a score automatically makes this one of the best films of this year in my opinion. It was worth all the hype it deserves which makes it another one of the best of this year and the only movie with such a score automatically makes this one of the best films of this Once again, Star Wars: The Last Jedi manages to bring back everything that made its predecessor worth seeing. Once again, Star Wars: The Last Jedi manages to bring back everything that made its predecessor worth seeing.