Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Jim J — 28 Jan 2018

I genuinely find how Episode VIII has affected people fascinating. I felt the film had almost no filler at all and I was engrossed the whole way through. I loved it. It's very rare that a film has that effect on me.

I think, then, that the reason this film affected people so runs deeper: I think this film destroyed many people's conclusions from the original trilogy - and they dislike it for that. For me, however, Luke's mentality and the way the Force was portrayed 'made sense'. I thought the way Luke fought Ren at the end was a representation of the nature of the Force itself: Luke was completely passive (he wasn't even there) while Ren let his own hatred and passion thwart his own plans by aggressively flailing around at nothing. This was a victory of Light over Dark and I believe Luke did it to save his friends and teach Ren a lesson about how the Dark side clouds judgement. The philosophy in the film stayed very faithful to the originals for me and I loved it for that.