Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Jaddman — 29 Dec 2017

Rarely do I get pissed off about something, that I write a review for it, but The Last Jedi is one of such occasions.

This movie destroys everything, that I held dear about Star Wars. The entire plot is an incoherent mess from start to finish. It's filled with plotholes, inconsistencies and irrational decisions by the characters.

It doesn't just "subverts expectations", it completely goes against all established lore of the Star Wars universe, craps on the characters of the original trilogy and delivers nothing that was built up in The Force Awakens.

Admittedly, I didn't like The Force Awakens either, but at the very least, you could appreciate the effort, that was put into "recreating the Original Trilogy magic", when creating that film.

Unfortunately, it seems like Rian Johnson not only did not see Original Trilogy, but The Force Awakens as well.

No, we didn't have "unreasonable expectations". When J.J. Abrams hyped up the questions, such as "Who are the Rey's parents?", "Who is Snoke?", "Where are the Knights of Ren?", "Why did Luke go into exile?", we rationally expected answers to these questions. We assumed, that they will be answered in the next film of the trilogy.

Unfortunately, Disney made an absolutely idiotic decision to switch Directors for each film of the new trilogy, and gave them complete free range of what to do. Unsurprisingly, when Rian Johnson took over, he made his absolute best to destroy everything that J.J. set up.

That was me speaking as a Star Wars fan. For me, as a moviegoer, this movie is just as bad.

It was unnecessary long. The 80% of the movie is a boring chase of two puny fleets, during which the bad guys just shoot at our main characters from time to time.

It is filled with ridiculous humor. From the starting scenes of the movie, with Poe's "yo mama" joke, to the Luke's first scene, where he throws out his father's lightsaber like it's Pirates of the Carribean, the jokes and quips are absolutely out of place.

The side story of Finn and Rose is as boring as it is unnecessary. It takes around third of the movie, and in the end, results in absolutely nothing.

The decisions of the main characters are absolutely stupid. Why didn't Admiral Holdo tell Poe her plan? If it weren't for her, the entire Finn and Rose subplot wouldn't even exist. In the end, she doomed the fleet, because DJ spoiled the Resistance plan, and then she waited for way too long to even do anything about it.

But more importantly, the decisions and portrayal of Luke is disrespectful to the franchise and the fans. From a symbol of hope, the man, who saw light in Darth Vader, second most evil person in the universe, Luke became a bitter old man, who decided to murder hiw own nephew, while he's asleep, just because he had some dark thoughts. And by the end of the film, after a completely anticlimactic final battle between Luke and Kylo, he just decided to die because he was a bit tired.

The only two good parts of the movie are the music and visuals. John Williams' score is as always epic and majestic, which could not even be attributed to this movie, because the pieces are mostly from the previous films. As for the visuals, I didn't expect anything else.

After what I've seen, I'm completely uninterested in the future of Star Wars universe. I refuse to support any future movies, and I'm quite certain, that Rian Johnson either hates Star Wars, or didn't see it at all.