After being very impressed with the Force Awakens and liking Rogue One, there were high hopes that Episode 8 would continue to good work but sadly this is a big disappointment and comes close to undoing all the great work that J.J. Abrams did in Episode Seven. The film sees Luke Skywalker return after his blink and you’ll miss it cameo at the end of the last film. He is basically living as a hermit on an island and Rey is trying to bring him back. It was good to have Mark Hamill back and was the best thing in this film. I thought that Skywalker’s reluctance to coming back was quite smart and helped build up to his big scene with Kylo Ren.
The main problem is the structure of the film. It feels like it is going at half speed. I thought that the whole casino scene was thrown in to give Poe something to do. Poe was one of the driving forces in Force Awakens but is given next to nothing to do. Then there is the Rose character who just seems such a wasted opportunity. She always seemed like a sulky teenager who whines quite a lot and is thrown into the centre of this story without really doing anything to deserve it. Also I thought that Snode was suppose to be the new Emperor and yet was killed off in this film which seems stupid to me.
This was the last film that Carrie Fisher did before she died. Episode Eight came out just a week or so before she passed and it gives her scenes a new meaning. There is one shot where she is floating through space and I know that some people would be annoyed by this anyway but even if she hadn’t passed away I would still like this scene because in this whole film I thought she was fantastic in the entire movie.
The Last Jedi is a disappointing film. I think that because Force Awakens was such a good film this seems quite dull in parts which for a Star Wars film is not a good thing. I think the fault of this has to lay at Rian Johnson’s door who has decided to pretty much do his own thing without paying any attention to what J.J. Abrams did in Force Awakens.
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