Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Jake W — 27 Dec 2018

Felt like the film wasn't written by someone who knew what they were doing; it tears down pretty much all of the work that the previous film builds, and leaves very little to follow. It's less science and more fiction with weird boat physics being one of the many cruical plot devices.

There are some really good scenes but they are very short lived, and for some reason in the middle of the film rather than logically at the end. The story around those scenes is very staggered, mostly unrelated, and I think it was trying to be funny but was disappointing to watch the out of character mockery (there is actually a your-mom joke.

) It felt like characters were going to learn some lessons but only two of the characters actually showed any development, and others had even regressed after their development in the previous film.