Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Sandy C — 11 Jun 2018

Watched TLJ last night and I was blown away. Before talking about the content, the actual execution of the film was fantastic. The script, cinematography, acting and score were superb. The only exception was Daisy Ridley's performance which I thought was lacking emotion at certain points, especially in the first two thirds of the film but she was still good.

As for the content there were a lot of surprises (obviously) but not one of them that I was disappointed with. I thought the evolution and characterisation was natural and unforced and it made sense.

One of the only real criticisms I can make of the film is some of the humour (IMO) came at the wrong time. There were some tense/emotional moments that were waylaid by humour which I thought disrupted the tone in parts.

As a film on its own it gets 8.5 out of 10 for me. However after 9 is released and all the mystery is revealed I expect that score to increase. I think this trilogy is gointo be so intrinsically linked it will be hard to judge each film individually until the series is completed.