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Dec 15, 2017 · Matt Zoller Seitz December 15, 2017. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Writer/director Rian Johnson ’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is a sprawling, incident- and character-packed extravaganza that picks up at the end of “ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens ” and guides the series into unfamiliar territory.
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Updated: Jan 21, 2018 3:19 am
Posted: Dec 12, 2017 5:00 pm
Author's Note: This is a spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) tells Rey (Daisy Ridley), “This is not going to go the way you think.” That line proves to be true for just about every plot thread, every scene, every moment in the entire movie. Writer/director Rian Johnson packs the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga with genuine surprises of all kinds, which all amount to a thrilling, emotional, and funny film that is easily the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back.
J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens got dinged for borrowing too much from A New Hope, but recycling old material isn’t an issue in The Last Jedi. It’s evident that Johnson understands the criticisms about every preceding film and predicted the assumptions about this one (to the point where some dialogue sounds as if it was lifted right from fans’ mouths), and that he used that knowledge to absolutely shatter expectations. There are fan-pleasing moments, for sure, but nothing is included without a purpose. Johnson plays with all the toys Star Wars has to offer, and he’s not afraid to change – or break – a few along the way.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, even though the Resistance is in quite the pickle, its members can’t decide on the best course of action to combat the First Order. Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) is still the hotshot pilot you remember, but his brashness soon gets him into hot water with the leadership, General Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern). Meanwhile, Finn (John Boyega) and Resistance maintenance worker Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) have their own plan to save the day which takes them to the casino city of Canto Bight, where people and aliens of all shapes and sizes live in excess. This new locale is overflowing with weird and wondrous alien designs, like a Mos Eisley cantina for the galaxy’s one-percenters, and it serves to demonstrate a different kind of evil than the militaristic First Order while also showing the disenfranchised people worth fighting a star war for. That’s also where we meet Benicio del Toro’s unscrupulous hacker character, DJ, who, with his small but effective part, makes a slimy yet profound impression by sharing a morally gray worldview that isn’t usually expressed in the black-and-white world of Star Wars.
Both of these storylines have their merits, but are also what cause The Last Jedi to lose a bit of its momentum in the middle. The Canto Bight setting provides some resonant material for Finn, who struggles with his position as a cog in the war machine; and Rose is a compelling new addition to the Star Wars family thanks to Tran’s energetic and determined characterization, but their subplot feels a bit unwieldy at times. Isaac and Dern have an electric chemistry as their characters butt heads, but that drama bogs down an already dense story. None of these elements are inherently bad, mind you, there’s just so much going on already that things can get a tad cumbersome. However, it is to Johnson’s credit that the movie is so powerful and engaging overall that it succeeds wildly anyway.
John Williams once again delivers a soul-stirring Star Wars score – a feat that must be second nature to him by now. Thundering arrangements turn skirmishes into epic battles, new compositions emphasize the sense of adventure, and old themes make appearances for a touch of nostalgia. There’s a reason George Lucas calls Williams’ music the “secret sauce” of Star Wars.
What’s most impressive about The Last Jedi is that Johnson managed to make an incredibly faithful Star Wars movie that embraces the franchise’s most beloved elements while also giving it a tone and style all his own. He’s brought a modernity to the film, from the glib and self-aware jokes right down to the way he chose to film it. Johnson takes Rey’s Force learnings as an opportunity to shoot scenes unlike anything we’ve seen before in a Star Wars entry, resulting in a gorgeous audio-visual treat in one scene and a trippy mind-bender in another. The space dogfights and ground battles borrow elements from real-world war movies to make them all the more harrowing, not unlike the Vietnam-inspired Rogue One.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the quintessential Star Wars movie. It embraces everything in the franchise that came before while taking big risks to push the story into new and unexpected places. While there are a few subplots that weigh it down in the middle, everything ultimately works toward delivering an absolutely stunning sequence of events tha...
Dec 12, 2017 · 2h 32m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 12, 2017. Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版. Evil is ascendant. The Resistance — an intrepid, multi-everything group whose leaders include a battle-tested woman...
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