Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Dmussi12 — 15 Jan 2018

First off, Star Wars is a myth. Myths should not question their own premises and deconstruct themselves - that’s the critic’s job. But ignoring the meta-critique, the movie itself was extremely clunky and tedious.

The Finn/codebreaker storyline went nowhere. On the one hand, the daring, against-all-odds mission is supposed to work - it’s Star Wars!. On the other, even if you want it to fail and teach Po a lesson (always obey your superiors even when they seem to be leading your entire movement to certain death - a sickening betrayal of the whole ‘rebel’ ethos), they should have killed off Finn.

There are so many things I could criticize about this movie, but I’ll just do one more. Why exactly are we supposed to care about the Resistance? No one responded to their distress call - clearly the rest of the galaxy doesn’t thing the First Order is all that bad if they’re unwilling to fight against them.

Okay, one more thing, sorry. Why did the movie end with broom kid? I don’t care about broom kid, no one cares about broom kid. Every other movie ends with main characters - a concrete summation of coming conflict or a recent victory - this one ends with an abstract appeal to a notion of hope.

Broom kid probably doesn’t even care or know about the First Order, he just wants to be freed. Just another tiny instance of this film’s message of subversion. Everything about the movie seems to betray some aspect of ‘Star Wars’.

This is how a culture dies.