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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Here we have the second installment in the third trilogy of Star Wars movies and this one is a winner all the way. Directed by Rian Johnson, who directed one of my favorite movies, Brick, he brings a bit of a different vibe to the universe here, and it's all for the better. We get to continue the story of good guys Rey, Finn, Poe, and bad guys Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke, with Luke Skywalker and his sister Leia also returning for the side of good.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) gets to pick up her story right where the last movie left us, meeting Jedi Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, in a fine performance) on his isolated island, hoping he will train her in the ways of the Force. But she finds that not to be an easy task as he has turned away from the Force after the destruction of his students by his pupil Kylo Ren many years before. He refuses to train any Jedi potentials due to the pain and loss he suffered. But Rey is no so easily dissuaded.
Meanwhile, injured friend Finn (John Boyega) wakes from his coma and is eager to pick up the fight against the evil First Order. General Leia (the late Carrie Fisher), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) are in the vanguard of the Resistance. But they find the odds against them this time as their fuel is running low and their ships are being picked off one by one by the First Order.
Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey find that they can see only each other when they use the Force and can commune with each other. We find out whether this is a good thing or not near the movie's conclusion.
The movie has nary a dull moment and moves at a breakneck pace. There are many surprises as director Johnson chooses to go in certain directions that I personally found refreshing. Certain people, good and bad, meet their end here; extensions of personal powers are found out; sacrifice is at hand all the way through the movie; there are moments of levity even in this somewhat darker installment; but the ending leaves you with hope for the future, which has been a running theme ever since George Lucas went back and subtitled the first Star Wars (1977) A New Hope. Hope reigns eternal in this saga. I loved it and will probably see it again at the cinema, which is something I rarely do anymore.
Here we have the second installment in the third trilogy of Star Wars movies and this one is a winner all the way. Directed by Rian Johnson, who directed one of my favorite movies, Brick, he brings a bit of a different vibe to the universe here, and it's all for the better. We get to continue the story of good guys Rey, Finn, Poe, and bad guys Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke, with Luke Skywalker and his sister Leia also returning for the side of good.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) gets to pick up her story right where the last movie left us, meeting Jedi Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, in a fine performance) on his isolated island, hoping he will train her in the ways of the Force. But she finds that not to be an easy task as he has turned away from the Force after the destruction of his students by his pupil Kylo Ren many years before. He refuses to train any Jedi potentials due to the pain and loss he suffered. But Rey is no so easily dissuaded.
Meanwhile, injured friend Finn (John Boyega) wakes from his coma and is eager to pick up the fight against the evil First Order. General Leia (the late Carrie Fisher), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) are in the vanguard of the Resistance. But they find the odds against them this time as their fuel is running low and their ships are being picked off one by one by the First Order.
Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey find that they can see only each other when they use the Force and can commune with each other. We find out whether this is a good thing or not near the movie's conclusion.
The movie has nary a dull moment and moves at a breakneck pace. There are many surprises as director Johnson chooses to go in certain directions that I personally found refreshing. Certain people, good and bad, meet their end here; extensions of personal powers are found out; sacrifice is at hand all the way through the movie; there are moments of levity even in this somewhat darker installment; but the ending leaves you with hope for the future, which has been a running theme ever since George Lucas went back and subtitled the first Star Wars (1977) A New Hope. Hope reigns eternal in this saga. I loved it and will probably see it again at the cinema, which is something I rarely do anymore.