Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Scott G — 17 Jan 2018

I must admit I had some mixed feeling about The Last Jedi when I watched it for the first time. Luke Skywalker is my favorite character. I grew up with him so he's my hero. No one wants to see their heroes fail. A lot of time has passed since we saw Luke. Ultimately you have a film about Kylo Ren and Rey. These two characters are at the center, but The Last Jedi is about Luke. This story explores the emotional wreckage from the fallow of Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo.

In a New Hope, Obi-Wan has had to digest his failure with Anakin Skywalker for twenty years. In The Last Jedi, Luke has been in isolation for a handful of years. It's not easy seeing Luke so different at first, but this help explains why he doesn't come to the rescue in The Force Awakens. Once I came to that realization that it's obvious Luke detached himself from the galaxy everything else clicked into place.

I've seen the film now countless time and it's clear that Rian Johnson wrote one of the best Star Wars scripts ever. My only gripes about the film were kind of out of his control. I look forward to what he does with his own story.