Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Phil M — 03 Feb 2018

Been thinking abit about new Starwars movie the last jedi. As a big Starwars fan and I had high hopes. I watched it over Christmas and after seeing I was uncertain how I felt but I knew I was disappointed.

The more I thought about it the more I disliked it. I really disliked the direction they took with Luke. It was just to distant from the hero we know and we weren't told enough to make it believable. Luke now a coward a complete opposite to the ultimate hero like that in original trilogy.

Luke really adds little to the story and apart from the stupid ending Luke might as well not be in it.

Yet it seemed the 2nd episode was suppose to be all about Luke?

Unfunny jokes, a strange and boring slow chase space battle. Rey character seems go no where and has no challenges to overcome, makes no mistakes and doesn't grow in character so she seems unrealistic.

Rey's parent plot goes nowhere. Stupid Yoda scene, where a force ghost can cause lightning.

Unsatisfying plot for Snoke, he just dies too easily.

Little space ships destroying big ones because of a hyper drive, mmm thats dumb idea, why have laser cannons when you can just fly ships with hyper drives it other ships....

Pointless Walker scene with silly slow moving big cannon, why wouldn't they land closer...

Why can't they just bomb the planet....

Why are the first order so dumb, with stupid men.

All the villains are stupid, and it's never explained why they are so evil so I can't understand them, and they don't seem real. Also only one female villain Phasma who's story is wasted again.

Also why are all the rebel men suddenly stupid too. Poe a hero in The Force Awakens, is not a reckless mutineer and this ruins his character. Finn is now like Ja Ja Binks with annoying clownish behavior and if he wasn't in the movie I wouldn't have missed him.

Rose was wasted opportunity, he story arc seemed pointless, and again I wouldn't of missed her if she wasn't in the movie.

Where are the bounty hunters and interesting evil aliens.

Ehhh.

Where is the view of what the First Order is trying to achieve and what they do next..

It just doesn't make any sense for a 2nd movie in a triology, or tie in properly with the other movies.

So disappointing and unsatisfying.

It's complete ruined Starwars for me.

I won't be excited to see episode 9 because I don't see how it can be fixed. There is also nothing interesting to look forward to. Nothing was setup for the next movie.

What's good about it? definitely visually pleasing, and sounds good.

If you're not a big starwars fan or if you consider this movie unrelated to the starwars universe then it's more pleasing.

If you enjoy seeing female Rebel leaders who are supposedly smart but really tactical light weights fighting and winning against even more brain dead white men in the evil first order empire, then this movie is for you!