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Why is Luke being annihilated like this? After all, he is the number 1 hero character from the original trilogy. Now he's a guy chilling on an island with the thought that his own nephew (whom he tried to kill for no reason) is trying to be the new Vader. He sensed that the dark side was strong in Ben, ok. But why try to kill him with a lightsaber? After all, the dark side was also strong in Darth Vader, and yet Luke refused to kill his father in front of the Emperor. The film also has positive aspects, but all in all it disappointed me .Why did Finn and Rose free Donkey from captivity and only give the slave boy a ring? Why did Snoke have to die so stupid? Why does Yoda look so bad? Leah is Mary Poppins? Hux is a laughing stock? Phasma losing to a caretaker with no armor? Luke's last words were, "Today the rebellion is reborn. And I will not be the last Jedi." One question, why is the movie called The Last Jedi then?

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was a huge disappointment to a long time "Star Wars" fan such as myself. Okay, here we go.

The rebel Resistance are on the run, hunted down by the evil First Order ruled by the Dark Side. Daisy Ridley, who plays a young woman strong with The Force, seeks a Jedi master (Mark Hamill) who is in hiding; and begs him to help with the fight against the First Order and maybe train her to be a Jedi - sounds a bit like "The Empire Strikes Back" right? Why not, as "The Force Awakens" was similar to "A New Hope."

Then there is the puzzling and badly written (which fits right in with the rest of the movie which revels in its mediocrity and goofball jokes) subplot involving two Resistance fighters going to a casino to find a person who excels in hacking stuff so they can bring him back to the bad guys' main ship to sneak in unnoticed and destroy some gizmo that allows the bad dudes to track the Resistance fleet - what's left of it - even in hyperspace. Destroy the gizmo, and the Resistance can zoom away and escape to fight another day. But that may not be necessary because the leader of the rebel fleet intends to abandon the main ship and use escape transports to sneak into a planet that has been abandoned but has an old rebel base there. Oh, the escape transports have a cloaking device to keep the bad guys from seeing them on their monitors...but...you can still see the escape ships! Yes, the rebel fleet are miles from the bad guys' ships, but are you telling me there is no one on the bad guys' bridge with a super duper binocular to get an up close and personal view of what the good guys are doing? At this point I may as well continue with my beef with this movie.

The opening sequence, which was very good in a menacing way, was completely ruined by jokes.

John Boyega, playing a Resistance fighter and the only black guy with a significant role in this movie, is still a damn clown.

Hamill's character was handled badly. The movie tried to make him look like a tragic character, something out of a Shakespeare story; but the writer, who is also the director, mangled the job so badly that Hamill came off as a blubbering fool. In his first appearance of "The Last Jedi," Hamill casually tosses his lightsaber behind him like a half eaten apple. What a great way to start destroying a character that could have added sorely needed darkness and depth to this movie. I understand that this movie is supposed to demystify the Jedis; but by doing that the writer/director/producers/studios are destroying the essence of "Star Wars." On top of that, demystifying the Jedis was done in a half-assed way, so the result is a double whammy.

There was no interesting lightsaber fight. None. The one with Ridley inside the Supreme Leader's throne room looked like something out of a second day rehearsal. As for the last lightsaber duel, it doesn't even count - I can't say why or else I'd spoil a big surprise. A great lightsaber fight sequence could have saved this movie, but there was none.

There were too many elements stolen from "A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "Return Of The Jedi."

Ridley's character is hinted as someone who already knows the way to being a Jedi, and she can continue without Hamill training her and be fine. Huh? What? It is established that it takes many years to fully train a Jedi Knight. As strong as Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) was with The Force, he still needed over a decade of training by Jedi masters. So...Ridley will be okay and be a Jedi Knight one day because of three lessons Hamill taught her, plus reading the sacred Jedi books that she managed to take from Hamill's island?

Captain Phasma was next to Boyega when the ship was damaged badly. Everyone around Boyega was hurt badly or killed, and yet we see Phasma entering the cargo bay hundreds of feet away, unblemished and marching through smoke. Yes, dramatic, but made no damn sense.

Hamill apparently has a newfound power that wasn't established in any of the 7 previous "Star Wars" movies (including "Rogue One"). So, Disney is just going to make s@#t up as they see fit, damn the "Star Wars" bible (the original three movies)?

There are more problems I noticed with this movie, but I don't want to write a novella here, so...my most memorable, movie moment of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was the scene when Chewbacca was about to eat a cooked and tasty looking Porg as living Porgs gave him the sad eye/horror-stricken look. This scene was genuinely funny, and it says a lot about this movie that this is my most memorable, movie moment.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" are movies that shouldn't have been made if they were going to be this disappointing. I understand Disney sees this franchise as a cash cow. Fine, but Disney needs to put competent writers to work on this series. Imagine how much more money can be made if the movie is actually good!

To Hollywood writers/directors/producers/studio executives: please refrain from using alcohol and drugs when making movies.

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I didn't hate TLJ, but even if I completely ignore all the (among many fans) controversial choices Rian Johnson made with regards to his treatement of Star Wars' lore and characters, I still have a great number of qualms with the film in terms of its storytelling (sorry, this is going to be rather long):

PACING: Now that was probably my biggest issue with the film. Apart from the opening battle, the film has very little forward momentum for nearly two thirds of its running time. After the action-heavy beginning, the plot gets tangled in 3 separate storylines which unfold simultaneously. My (perhaps personal) problem was that I found 2 of those neither emotionally involving nor thrilling: the Finn/Rose subplot about finding the code-breaker on the "Casino Planet" Canto Bight as well as the Poe/Holdo storyline about the resistance' messy escape from the First Order and the universe's most sluggish space chase.

But the one story I was ready to get fully invested in - you know: the one about Rey and Luke on the island (and Kylo via Force-Skype) - not only offers very little in terms of action and visual excitement, it also never really gets the time to breathe: because the overall narrative requires the film to cut back and forth between it and the other two evolving story threads. The result of that narrative structure is 90 minutes of scenes with Rey and Luke (and a little Kylo) on a dreary, grey island that beg to resonate emotionally but get blunted each time by the film's need to cut to the (for me) somewhat uninvolving action in Finn's and Poe's part of the universe. And their two storylines lose all sense of urgency because they keep getting interrupted by the scenes on the island with Rey and Luke - which, to make matters worse, develop over several days in the film while Finn's and Poe's stories unfold over a couple of hours.

Due to that uneven structure we end up with a two-and-a-half-hour movie where the most crucial scenes of the story never get enough room to breathe and even feel rushed. It's only once all three storylines start coming together during the last third of the film that the film's pacing really works for me. But getting there often feels like a chore (and I'm really not sure a Star Wars film should feel like work).

ODD CHARACTER CHOICES: What is the purpose of having Leia in a coma for the better part of the film? Don't tell me this is all set up so Kylo thinks she's dead: she's connected to the Force, and he's about as plugged into the Force as one can be; if established Star Wars lore tells us anything, it's that Kylo would instantly feel it if his mother died (now that's something even a casual fan such as myself knows). So why not use Leia more? Why introduce a completely new character in Laura Dern's Admiral Holdo, if she essentially just functions as a stand-in for Leia?

Poe Dameron's whole arc in the film is about him learning the terrible human cost for stupid, vain heroism, and it's with Leia that he clashes, after he's sacrificed half the resistance' fleet in order to take out a single Dreadnought during the film's opening battle. And as soon as Leia's in a coma, almost the exact same conflict continues with Holdo. Nothing against Admiral Holdo, but it's hard to get invested in her character, because we only just met her; from a storytelling point of view, to make Poe's arc really resonate and raise the stakes for him (and the audience), it would make much more sense if he rebelled against Leia. Wasting her in a coma instead seems utterly pointless.

BIG MOMENTS: Unlike its immediate predecessor, TLJ shuns familiar formula. It's not all forward momentum, it's not all action - but unfortunately, it fails to provide the audience with an emotionally involving story instead. It may take characters in unexpected directions, but most of those new directions turn out to be somewhat... rather "mature" choices in terms of storytelling instead of exciting ones? Yes, there are several grand moments in the film that work great on an intellectual level, but they fail to reach us on a gut level. Whenever the film tries to build up to a big emotional moment, that moment ends up feeling, well, not very big at all - which naturally could again be a very deliberate choice by the director to subvert the formula, but to what end? Surely, the subversion itself can't be his main goal?

For example, take the scene where Rey learns from Kylo that her parents were nobodies and that they're long dead. The problem of that scene is not the reveal itself: it's the scene's execution. It's a huge reveal for Rey, and it should have more weight. It could - and probably should - be the most emotional moment in the film; a heart-felt gut-punch to our heroine, but instead it's just: *fighting* - "Your parents were nobodies, and they're dead." - "Yes, I feel it too." - *fighting continues*. I just don't get why such an important moment is treated so fleetingly.

In contrast, look how Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams staged The Force Awaken's most emotional scene: Han Solo's death at the hands of his own, terribly conflicted son. Now you can say about the film itself what you want, but that scene had a huge emotional impact on the viewer. It had weight. Imagine that scene had just happened during a fight, in a heated moment, only for the narrative to proceed without giving it any room? These are storytelling choices by Rian Johnson that don't do the movie any favors.

I would have been ready to applaud the director's (and/or Disney's) decision to try something different after TFA, but I lament this failure to develop emotional gravitas - and the film's unwillingness to ever raise the stakes for its lead characters. Until the very end, I never feel like any of the protagonists are in real danger. Nor are they ever confronted with the shocking consequences of their reckless actions on a personal level; Finn and Poe's great ideas and plans directly lead to the senseless deaths of dozens, if not hundreds of people - but those casualties are just numbers; they're just exploding spaceships we witness from afar; our heroes (and we as an audience) are never forced to feel the full weight of their loss.

As a consequence, there's just nothing there to make this war's terrible cost really resonate with us. This film needs a heartfelt punch to the gut; I'm all for challenging the protagonists morally and give them intellectually satisfying arcs, but the resulting storylines should still be exciting enough to make your heart pound. And I know I can only speak for myself, but my heartbeat hardly ever accelerated throughout its entire two-and-a-half-hour running time - if at all.

TLJ'S ISSUES AS A DIRECT SEQUEL: TFA teased a boatload of things to come, and while I'm theoretically on board with many of the unexpected directions Rian Johnson took these characters to in TLJ, I am very confused by his decision to ignore so many of the plot threads that were set up by Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams in TFA. Because due to that unorthodox approach, watching those two films back to back is a jarringly weird experience. Regardless how one feels about TFA, not even bothering to acknowledge what came before isn't just strange - it's almost offending to the many people who were fully invested in its mysteries and could hardly wait for those promised reveals.

And don't tell me they have only themselves and J.J. Abrams to blame; no - they had every right to have those expectations: because TLJ IS the direct sequel to TFA. In the same sense that BACK TO THE FUTURE II was the direct sequel to BACK TO THE FUTURE: the kind of sequel that continues only seconds after the first film ends, resulting in one unbroken storyline developing over two films. And of course the director can go into unexpected directions in the sequel - hell: as an audience we want him to. In fact, that IS part of our expectation and one of the reasons we go to the movies (and BTTF II did it brilliantly) - but pretending like important plot points and huge moments in the previous film simply didn't matter or didn't even happen comes dangerously close to playing the audience for fools.

Not that an artist (or a huge conglomerate) shouldn't have the creative licence to do that - but if you go down that road don't act surprised about the inevitable backlash. And I honestly don't get why going into new directions had to result in such an uneven transition from the first film to the second; the way I see it, even a couple of lines of dialog from characters like Luke, Snoke or Kylo-Ren would have been enough to tie some of the most prominent lose ends up or at least not just leave them dangling in the air like this. I mean, I get that Johnson doesn't want us to be interested in Snoke's story (and a whole bunch of other things that were made to feel important in TFA) because HE isn't interested in it. But as a writer he could get that point across and still address the issue (because the previous film told the audience to BE interested in it) - just to then quickly resolve it in an offhanded manner and take the story where he wants it to go.

SUMMARY: The Last Jedi is a structurally uneven and often frustrating film that almost always refuses to give its heroes - and the audience - satisfaction. It is a film that over large stretches of its running time is so concerned with subverting the formula and teaching lessons about the importance of failure, that it fails to realize how watching your heroes fail over two and a half hours may be unexpected, but frankly - it's also a bit tiring.

It may have been a gutsy and very unexpected move by Johnson to throw out most of the mysteries teased in TFA, but the question only audiences - and time - can answer is whether what he offers instead is a worthy replacement.

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I originally went to the midnight showing of this back in December. Only reviewing it now because, for whatever reason, I was unable to make a review for any title for the longest time.

I've not watched it since, so forgive me if any information I say is... inaccurate.

But this movie. Where to I begin? Well, I suppose I say it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Because it's not. There's something to enjoy here but, some sequences, make it incredibly hard to enjoy it the way it should be.

I'll say the cons first, because they are the most glaring.

I'll start off by saying the Canto Bight sequence was 100% pointless. It was unnecessary and slow. There was no substance in any of the scenes that showed Canto Bight. It felt like they were trying too hard to spread the "animal cruelty is very much real" message. I get it that they want to spread awareness, but don't make it glaringly obvious. Actually have it play an important role in the movie, rather than having it there for the sake of it.

Rose is an awful character, in my opinion. She is just there for diversity sake and nothing but. The actress, which I'll give credit, did a great job with what she was given but I felt like she was shoehorned into this movie.

Rey's training feels far too rushed. Before anyone says that Luke's Jedi training in Empire was rushed, I'll correct you by saying his training took up a good portion of the movie and even by the end he wasn't a full Jedi. He was a full Jedi in The Return of the Jedi. Awakens ended with Rey finding Luke; her training barely happened and all of a sudden she's able to use the force to move rocks out of the way as if she had been training for a long, long time.

Speaking of Rey, the whole "strong female role" feels forced. Again. I'm all for female roles being strong, I am. But don't make the male's almost irrelevant. Finn didn't really do that much in The Last Jedi. Yeah, he had a few scenes here and there, but he practically spent the entire film with Rose. Doing, let's be honest, very little.

Rose saves Finn. Okay, but if Finn is to be killed off in the next film, they've missed a great opportunity. It was a typical "here comes Disney" moment, ruining what would have been a great scene. Not saying I wanted Finn to die, but if they have plans to kill him off in the next one, I'd suggest they don't because they missed out on what could have been a great death scene.

Humour? Too much of it, but there are also pros around that too. So I won't say too much. And Ben Swolo. Why? Oh, and Phasma again falsely built up.

Oh, and last but not least. Luke. This film completely goes against what his character is about. He's meant to be this confident Jedi who always tries to find a way. In The Last Jedi? He's the opposite. He's pessimistic. He's not wanting to save anyone or anything. It's not Luke. And the promise about his screen time? Yeah, false. You probably know that though because you're reading a spoiler review.

Now onto the pros. There aren't many, but the stuff they get right, they do get right, hence my rating.

The effects, in my opinion, are great. They're not overly reliant on CGI. It's good to see that a majority of the aliens in the movie are puppets, but really detailed and realistic ones. It's good to know they've not used CGI for the sake of it like how it was with the prequels.

The acting is fantastic, in my opinion, for the most part. Yes, Rey's still a bit... whiny. But she's not as whiny as she was. She's much better than she was in Awakens.

The action sequences are very well shot and very well choreographed, with all the angles and such. I feel they did extremely well in that department. Really, really well. I enjoyed the sequences.

The humour, albeit overused, was funny in some places. So I could enjoy it in that respect.

Overall? It's not as bad as people say, but don't go out of your way to watch it. If you're a die hard Star Wars fan (like me) then. Go ahead, I guess. But don't go in with high expectations. Keep your expectations neutral and just go in with the "sequel mentality". Rule of thumb is: movie sequels don't tend to always be as good as their predecessors. (Unless your movie is Empire)

6/10

This didn't feel like Star Wars. Now, I know people said that after viewing The Phantom Menace, but the prequels, despite their flaws, delivered a picture of a larger and more complex galaxy than the one we were introduced to in the original trilogy. The prequel characters were poorly written, scene direction felt off at times, Jar Jar existed, but at the end of the day I'll take the prequels over the new Disney films because they painted a universe. They made me want to see more Star Wars, and I appreciated the original trilogy's story arc even more after watching them.

The Last Jedi did the complete opposite. It killed my interest in the Star Wars universe because there seems to be nothing left to care about. The Resistance is just the Rebels. The First Order is just the Empire. No end is in sight. Rey is perfect already. Snoke is dead and no one cared enough to even explain his existence in the first place. The original trilogy might as well just have never happened. We've had three death stars. No stable political structure seems to be possible in the galaxy, and if it were we wouldn't visit it in the films. For all we know the conflict could be taking place in one tiny sector of the galaxy with the rest of the galaxy completely out of the loop. Sure, some people in a space casino make money off selling weapons and a slave kid has a Rebellion ring now, but that's not enough to establish why I should care about the story anymore. "They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow."

The humor was cringe-worthy. Even the characters don't care. Poe's prank-call at the beginning dissolved any anxiety we might feel about his character right out the gate. Star Wars doesn't have to take itself seriously 100% of the time, but its characters should feel like they're fighting real battles. I don't even want to talk about the casino scenes. Disney has no right to lecture us on capitalism.

Much of the movie was just scenes lifted from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, cut-and-pasted around in a different order as if we couldn't figure that out. I sense a tone of disrespect for viewers' intelligence. Additionally, it is deeply disturbing to me to see critics give this movie such a high rating and then see news outlets publish articles questioning how seriously we should take the backlash. It is not a flaw in the ratings system. Sure, casual and young viewers will enjoy. But the backlash is real, and it's not all crusty old fanboys nostalgic about the good ol' days and complaining about political agendas (not that the fanboys always have illegitimate arguments). I'm a twenty-two year old woman and I was very disappointed.

Star Wars is for everyone. That should include fans, and people who love good stories.

When I watch this movie, it only makes me remember how good were all those other Star Wars movies and series before this one. They were great! But this one is a disaster.

I am a Star Wars fans that has watched everything about Star Wars, including all animated series, movies, TV shows, video games, toys, non-canon legends, articles, everything. I can tell Star Wars is my favorite franchise to marathon.

Last year I started my full marathon again, for 4th time, including all movies and series. The marathon is really long but hugely enjoyable at a level that no other can compete, until you get to this movie, The Last Jedi (2017).

The Last Jedi (2017) screwed it all.

Let me explain...

...If you are not a Star Wars fan, and you watch this movie alone (without marathon), you may like it. But when you are a Star Wars fan, you will feel severely disappointed, specially if you are marathoning.

Where's the respect for the Star Wars fans?

I blame it on only two persons: Rian Johnson (writer and director) and. Kathleen Kennedy (producer). You two screwed up what George Lucas took 40 years to build.

It was much better with George Lucas. Oh! Way better!

Why I blame it on Kathleen Kennedy? Because she is in charge now. If you choose someone to direct a Star Wars movie, make sure he or she is a Star Wars fan, because oh God! The Star Wars fanbase takes all this very seriously.

I have some questions for you, Rian, and Kathleen. See below:

* How Luke Skywalker gave up and abandoned his only family (his sister and friends) the republic, and all the causes for what he fought so hard and refused to help them? Did you even watched the original trilogy? Luke never give up. Please watch The Return of the Jedi, Rian.

This "Last Jedi" Luke is not in line with the Luke from previous movies. And that's just NOT what a Jedi does.

* If Luke didn't want to be found, how R2 D2 gave the missing part of the map? Can you explain?

* How Rey, without any experience with the force, develops skills so perfectly and quickly in a way that an experienced Jedi or even a Sith has never done it?

* What is that training from Luke?? Are you kidding me?? And how this training helped her in some way??

* Where the hell the all-powerful Snoke came from?? He did showed up in Star Wars without any origin, background/story? Nothing?

* How Leia survived that incredible SCAR explosion like in way that no a Jedi wouldn't have survived? Ok she is a Skywalker but, if she is so powerful, more than the Jedis (judging for the way she survived) why she didn't used those powers before to help a little bit? C'mon!!! This doesn't makes sense!!

* Why Finn and Rose rescue the space-horses but don't rescue the children?

* And there's a lot more. I just don't have time to mention more than 30 errors found on this movie.

If you are a Star Wars fan, you know what are all those errors.

We, the Star Wars fans deserve more respect.

I am going to marathon again, and I will skip this one and pretend this movie doesn't exists.

The production design is good, the special effects are good, the acting is good, but the story is a joke. This screenplay is embarrassment for the Star Wars fans.

I was pleasantly surprised with how many risks this movie took, and I was even more surprised with how many of those risks paid off. I liked The Force Awakens, but I thought it often played things too safe. This does not.

But these risks are character-based. Mark Hamill gives a fantastic performance as a cynical Luke who has an understandably dim view of the Jedi order. His decisions may seem shocking, but they make sense considering what he's been through. All of the other performances are also uniformly great.

This film is a study in how we can learn from failure, how we can take the mistakes of the past and create a better future. Every character in this movie makes major mistakes, and there are consequences to those mistakes. I found this far more dramatic than much of the conflict in The Force Awakens.

There are some truly beautiful images in this movie, from the opening space battle to a particularly thrilling lightsaber fight. Director Rian Johnson takes influence from samurai movies, WWII movies, and much more. That's exactly what the original trilogy did, and it makes the movie more dynamic.

*Major Spoilers*

The Last Jedi shows us how the Force can be used in ways we've never seen before. And I loved the revelation that Rey's parents are nobody jerks. She has no legacy to follow, which is in stark contrast to the overwhelming legacy that burdens Kylo Ren. Therefore, it makes sense that he'd want her to join him as he burns the past down.

*End Spoilers*

This is a great Star Wars movie. It has beautiful scenes, particularly ones between Luke and some other beloved characters. This isn't a very organized review, but these are some of my thoughts on the movie.

The 8th chapter in the newly resurrected Star Wars series, is a rollercoaster of an adventure, filled with the unexpected fun, twist and turns that have been delightfully introduced by Rian Johnson. What you would expect is not what is given to you, in the most whimsical Star Wars film to date.

Following from the end of the Force Awakens, we find Rey attempting to bring Luke Skywalker out of hiding to help the battle against the vicious First Order, but Skywalker himself does not seek to return, as his own past has defined him as he insists on staying in the dark. Meanwhile General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) leads the resistance in escape from the First Order in deep space, where Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Hux ( Domhnall Gleeson) won't rest till they are finally destroy them.

As a life long Star Wars fan, it was regrettable when I went to see The Force Awakens two years ago, and coming out feeling very disappointed. After a couple more views, I have been able to enjoy the film, but still find several issues with it, that haven't made it the Star Wars film for me. I have to admit though that the ending, with reveal of Rey's power and that final appearance of Mark Hamil did have me anticipating in glee for the next chapter of the series. With a darker appearance than the previous film, and a different director: Rian Johnson, I have been very excited about the promise of The Last Jedi.

As the caption "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away" emerged I had a sudden shiver of joy (as did it last time). Unfortunately soon after, I found myself thinking its was going in the same direction of the Force Awakens, with the same issues occurring.

We start with a rather choppy beginning in the establishment of our characters, that created a great disturbance in the balance of things. This was only pre-mature but stood out to ne. Again we have frequent moments of on the nose dialogue, that may sound good on paper, but through certain delivery is not. There is also have middle subplot with Finn (Jon Boyega) and new rebel character Rosa ( that doesn't really land on its feet and eventually becomes a waste of time just to fit into the 152 minute runtime.

We furthermore have the return of the endless string of laugh out loud jokes and quirks that turn it almost into comedy, charming to some maybe, but not for this fan. Star Wars at its core is film about the struggle of good vs evil which I and I'm sure many fans take seriously, but its very hard to take it serious if the film isn't half the time. Its not just the cute humour with BB-8 but there are times during critical conversation, that it appears a custard pie has to be thrown. I know if you take any Marvel film you could pick out a hundred moments of humour, but there's something about the humour in the latest Star Wars films, which just ruins it for me, it pulls me out of this fantasy and draws attention to the artificial construction.

That being said what Star Wars The Last Jedi wonderfully succeeds as a fun, action pack, adventure, character drama, and I am over joyed to say for myself, as a Star Wars film.

A Bold and original take for the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi at last becomes its very own film, in a inventive war drama, taking you places you would never expect to find yourself. From a brilliant dramatic tension between, Rey and Luke, to Ren's desperation to prove himself to Supreme Leader Snoke, and the resistance struggling to work cooperatively against the First Order. This is mostly held together by Mark Hamill's stand out performance as the broken Jedi master, in his heart-rendering eyes and stares, Hamill, perfectly embodies an aging Skywalker, lost of hope for the rest of the galaxy. This is the key heart that drives the soul of the film. Furthermore Driver brings a much stronger an more powerful performance in Kylo Ren, especially when opposite his counterpart Rey, with Daisy Ridley also bringing a more thriving performance.

Of course opposite Johnson's brialliant storytelling, is a range of fantastic action, including some sensational space dog fights, planet battles and as always exhilarating lighsaber battles. The Last Jedi, almost never rests in its continuous array of action making it one of the most action packed Star Wars films yet.

What I wanted for The Force Awakens is exactly what I got in the Last Jedi with its own story, still with certain shouts to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but still a new chapter to remember. As also similar to last year's spin off film Rogue One, The Last Jedi, properly begins and ends with a monumental final third act This is where the new Star Wars era finally become Star Wars for me. The film represents the change and innovation which the filmmakers are presumably planning to bring into a new Star Wars generation.

Star Wars The Last Jedi has now thankfully awakened the force in me, as to appreciate this new Star Wars era. It does still suffer from a several flaws within narrative structure, and my personal quarrels, but managed to bring out the real Star Wars fan in me. An incredible and enjoyable watch, The force is very strong with this one.

PROS: Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, and Adam Driver are still wonderful as the new blood of this franchise. They all play rich characters that we absolutely care about. However, Mark Hamill stole the show for me. While some people disliked his performance in this film, I felt that it showed how he's seen a lot over the years that changed him. The visuals in this film are top notch. I was surprised to find out which scenes were CG and which were practical (the stone hut destruction and the ship dropping bombs were both practical), which is a huge compliment. The story was a mixed bag for me, but I did really liked it when it was about Rey training with Luke, as well as her having a connection with Kylo Ren. This story element was extremely fascinating, but there were enough bad elements in the story to counteract this. The fight scene with the Praetorian guards was stunning. The action was so well choreographed, and it looked so cool. Also, I loved the Porgs. They were really cute, and they weren't in the movie long enough to get on my nerves, so I'm glad about that.

CONS: I went into this movie hoping that it would be a fitting last performance from Carrie Fisher (rest in peace). However, she was put in a coma early in the movie and didn't show up again until later. I was very disappointed that this was the last time that we're ever going to see Princess Leia (she's still a princess to me) again, especially since she had such a minimal role. The story also sucked. The entire scene on Cantobyte (that went on for 20 goddamn minutes) was overly long and unnecessary, as well as the plot element where Holdo doesn't tell anybody that they plan on taking refuge on an ice planet. I was initially impressed when "The Last Jedi" was announced to be 2 and a half hours long, but it could have easily been reduced by half an hour. Also, why the hell did you kill of Snoke in the second movie of the trilogy? The directors were planning on making him more powerful than the Emperor, but then he goes out like a punk in the middle of the second movie. This was outrageous! Finally, Rose and Finn's story arc just bored me. I understand what it was trying to do, but it ultimately failed by adding unnecessary scenes and trying to force a romance. Did we learn nothing from "Attack of the Clones"?

This movie becomes the first of many things. 1: Making Luke Skywalker, arguably the most iconic, optimistic hero of cinema who was able to pull his evil father from the Darkside to the light, into a disgraced and pathetic shell of a man who tried to psychopathically kill his nephew because he thought Ben might turn to the dark side. 2: Making it so that in an major space battle with a major target (i.e.: a Death Star), all you had to do is take a good sized spacecraft to lightspeed to ram it into that target to win. 3: Making Luke, out of shame and despair at his mistake, seclude himself from the world instead of attempting to make it right. 4: Making Finn and Rose go on a literally pointless journey (if you take their adventure out of the movie, the movie would end the same as if they twiddled their thumbs on the Ratis until boarding the little transport ships). 5: Making Finn and Rose trash a town that will result in more hardship and labor for enslaved children. 6: Making Ben and Rey participate in the most poorly crafted fight scene in Star Wars with these two completely forgetting their greatest advantage being the force and including incredible moments such as one kick from Rey pushing back three guards at one time, a blade disappearing into thin air to save Rey's life, and the guard at one moment trying to cut Rey's neck with the next moment releasing that force to then get decapitated by Rey. 7: Making it so that you squash any potential to explain how Rey has any of these incredible capabilities through lineage, let alone any plot or character development from Rey having significant parents (this is retconned in The Rise of Skywalker). 8: Making Chewbacca to only be in the movie to fly the millennium falcon, not to have any meaningful experiences or interactions with the original cast beyond Luke yelling at him. 9: Making Leia have force powers without explanation or having any character acknowledging that she has these powers to not only wield the force, but survive the empty, cold, and oxygen-less vacuum of space. 10: Making Poe, the best fighter pilot the Resistance possesses, form a mutiny because of the incompetence of the Leia's predecessor. 11: Making Hux, who appeared to be a formidable force in The Force Awakens, into a joke character because Rian thought it would be funny. 12: Making Luke Skywalker not have any reaction to the death of Han Solo, his best friend and brother-in-law. 13: Making the worst Star Wars visual and line of dialogue mesh with Rose, having crashed into Finn's speeder while he was trying to destroy a laser cannon, saying that, we will win, not by fighting what we hate, but saving what we love, while there is an explosion in the background where their friends are hiding caused by said cannon. 14: Making Poe get demoted by Leia for saving people's lives. 15: Making force ghosts able to summon lightning to destroy physical objects without ever having used this incredible ability to obliterate any evil force that would rise up. 16: Making Luke Skywalker say that the Jedi need to end after devoting his life to this philosophy and saving his evil father plus the galaxy through the praxis of this philosophy. 17: Making the chase scene the most uninteresting snail race when one star destroyer could have hyperspaced in front of the Ratis to cut it off from its trajectory to face it in battle. 18: Making Rey go from hating Ben to wanting to save Ben after a handful of brief interactions facilitated by Snoke. 19: Making Snoke nothing despite him being the connective tissue between the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy that explains the state of the Star Wars galaxy. 20: Making the worst Star Wars film in history.

I am Star Wars fan when I was young, and when I finished for episode 8 , I was eagerly awaiting this Film and, as usual, Disney proved its complete failure to write!

Luke Skywalker, the great Jedi of the dead galaxy, we see in this Film an old man who milks a dinosaur and drinks green milk, and the reasons that make him such ridiculous and meaningless reasons, reasons that only children are convinced of!

We waited two whole years, And easily Johnson killed the great Jedi knight, Luke Skywalker

Johnson, are you kidding us? are you serious?

Why do you want to tell us the story of a child ( Rey )who was alone forever, why do you show an adult ( Kylo ) who behaves like a child, why?

All the negatives I said revolve around one thing, which is writing

As for directing, he is very good, Johnson is excellent as a director, but he proved his failure to write for this film

The scenario and dialogues stunned me, especially the scene of Luke and Leah, it was the best scene ever, the scene of Luke and Kylo was kind of excellent.

Snook had to die in episode IX is Too Early To Kill him

Thanks Disney for nothing!

The Last Jedi is obsessed with the fallacious idea that in order to move forward you have to destroy everything that came before. It is as if someone walked into the Louvre and said "you guys need to stop holding onto the past," and then threw a torch down, cackling as hundreds of years of irreplaceable works of art burned to the ground, and then, standing triumphantly on the ashes, drew a smiley face.

In order to make room for the new characters to shine, Rian Johnson obliterates the character of Luke Skywalker to the point that Hamill himself couldn't recognize him; in the Original Trilogy Luke Skywalker transforms from a whiny farm boy into a hero who proclaims "I am a Jedi, like my father before me" and manages to do what both Yoda and Obi-Wan thought impossible: bring Darth Vader back to the light. In this film, Luke is tempted to murder his own nephew before he even did anything wrong simply because there is a chance he may turn to the dark side, but the worst thing is that after that rather than attempt to fix his mistake he falls into a pit of despair and hides on an island as his friends are slowly wiped out by the First Order. When Rey arrives he refuses to train her or help the resistance in any way (despite having made a map to his location in the previous film), until a strange out of character pyromaniac Yoda force ghost appears and tells him Rey is perfect already and also the extremely cliched line that "the greatest teacher, failure is." Luke is not the only wasted character from the Original Trilogy either: Chewbacca serves as nothing more than comic relief and Leia is incapacitated for most of the film after a strange Mary Poppins-esque stroll through outer space. Admiral Ackbar is killed so unceremoniously you barely even notice he dies.

The usage of the force in this film is wildly inconsistent with the previous films as well. First of all, force ghosts never were able to alter physical reality, yet in this film Yoda is able to bring lightning down from the sky, leading us to the question of why the force ghosts haven't just destroyed Snoke from their impenetrable positions in the netherworld. Leia is able to fly through outer space, and Snoke can force push people from across vast distances. Rey is able to lift multiple tons of boulders with apparent ease despite how difficult it was for Luke to make a single X-Wing in the Empire Strikes Back even budge. The force projection that Luke does at the end is actually interesting, but for some inexplicable reason they decide to make it kill him.

From a critical standpoint, the film is an incoherent mess. There is little to no character development and the plot is little more than a long, drawn out series of "gotcha" moments; we are treated like dogs, as Rian Johnson dangles delicious treats above us before rapidly yanking them away. In the climax of The Force Awakens Rey finds Luke and extends his lightsaber, but in The Last Jedi Luke merely throws the lightsaber over his shoulder. Leia is sucked into outer space, only to magically force fly back to safety. Luke agrees to train Rey, but then quits after only one pathetic training session. Finn is about to heroically save what's left of the resistance, but - surprise! - he is saved at the last minute by his awkward love interest. Snoke is the most powerful sith in any Star Wars movie ever, but is anticlimactically killed by a cheap trick. The entire first half of the movie leads us to believe Kylo Ren and Rey will join forces, but after Kylo Ren saves Rey - surprise! - they're not going to work together: Kylo Ren will remain the stereotypical bad guy and Rey the infallible heroine. Rian Johnson had a chance to actually do something original and daring in this respect, but instead chose to take the safe route.

The writing in this film is atrocious. Several lines are lifted verbatim from the Original Trilogy. The humor is out of place, overused, and sounds like they took the words of a heckler writing in the margins and thought they should actually put it in the movie (Star Wars meets Rocky Horror Picture Show). We are distracted by pointless subplots that are of no consequence. The new characters have no personality and sound like modern day buffoons who were simply transplanted into the Star Wars universe. There is so much wrong with it that you really just have to see it for yourself, although I would recommend not paying money for it.

In conclusion, The Last Jedi is the worst Star Wars movie ever made. It is heretical. It is the anti-Star Wars. It stinks.

I share Hamill's disapproval regarding the evolution (of rather devolution) of Luke. His self-imposed exile made just about as much sense as Yoda's. In fact, it made even less sense because at least Yoda was acknowledging that he was getting too old to fight the good fight and instead decided to wait for Luke and Leia to grow up. Chances are he felt his time had come because of his old age. (In the originals we didn't even know why Yoda was on Dagobah)

Luke's time couldn't possibly had come yet; he was still perfectly capable of continuing the good fight. He would have made a powerful ally to the resistance along with his force sensitive sister (just like in the originals), yet he decided to just.. give up. The son of the chosen one, savior of the galaxy, who resisted the temptations of the dark side, and was risking torture and death for the sake of his father, sister and friends.. just decided to give up on everything. Galaxy is in trouble? Meh. Sister is in danger? Meh. Solo in danger? Meh. That's obviously not who Luke is. Caring is a character trait for interesting characters, we can't have Luke be about that now that we have newer characters to sell. Only a few moments of last minute caring, and that's it!

The sentiment that the old has to go in order for the new to shine also is overrated. These people don't have to die to ease the transition between new and old, and you can't just toss Luke away simply because Rey now has to be the new Jedi star. It's kind of disgraceful for Rey because she is an interesting character portrayed by a seemingly skilled and beautiful actress. If you truly wish to remove Luke to make way for Rey then at least give him a more honorable passing.

Obi Wan had a perfectly fine passing. Same with Yoda and Vader. Solo's passing in the sequels was a bit meh but acceptable. Luke's passing felt like the studio didn't know how to get rid of him and so just tacked his illusion+suicide combo on in the end. I don't even mind that force illusions now is a thing, it's a cool trick.. but Luke's use of it just felt empty. everyone wanted to see Luke kick ass again, and although some people found the alternative acceptable I sure don't.