Star Wars 23 - The Last Jedi
Good news everyone! It wasn't awful or a remake or suffer the irredeemable flaws of Star Wars VII - IV Again. But there are flaws. First off, the character development, overall, was done well, which is something I can't say for the writers who tried to come up with the dumbest fucking explanation that is the underlying basis for the film, and any battle in general.
I'm talking about the main cruiser and the empire fleet. Yeah, the ships can fly through the shield, and cause damage but the energy weapons can't get through the shield. So they have a bazillion disposable tie fighters they can ram into the cruiser, but don't.
And then there is the whole bombers moving at 1 mph to strike the Dreadnought ship. Then they arm the bombs... and I literally thought to myself... probably better to arm those after you launch them, right? Big massive bombs, tie fighters all over the place... oh yeah... that whole thing. We need to take out the cannons to launch the bombs.... Umm, remember the Tie Fighters idiot?! They should have spaced the fuck head for losing most of their fleet.
And of course, the whole plan was to drive right by a planet that was right near them and not mentioned until it became convenient. Oh! They are only tracking a big ship and won't scan for other ships... but they'll be cloaked, but a decoder will break through that somehow... WHAT?!
And this takes away so much from the film, but seems to be what we are to expect from JJ Abrams products.
And now to the other issue with the film... Jar Jar Finn. Jesus fucking Christ on a stick! It isn't as much the spineless character he is (which I suppose would be a bit ironic), but the writing for his character is just gawd awful!
And then when I think we are going to be blessed by both Finn's redemption and his death...
...speaking of which, yeah, we have one guy coming at the cannon... should we fire on him?
Regardless... what the fuck Rose?! Just let him die... you are too fucking important to risk over him.
I think the film took a little privilege with the abilities of using the force, but overall, I think they managed to keep things reasonable within the plot and the explanations made sense. And I won't complain about the Leia thing. I'm fine with it.
One question:
Maybe my physics are off, but wouldn't a ship with a massive weight, colliding near light speed into another ship have pretty much obliterated the area, if not star system?
I remember reading someone noting they didn't know where they were going to go from here, so I was expecting a much more conclusive ending, but from how things end in the film, both sides are fucked as they are being run by impulsive idiots. Oh and Rei is there too, in order to actually help the good guys win, despite poor leadership.
There were other issues:
Such as the execution of Finn and Rose with soldiers all over the place, but then kaboom... and then there was a character reset on the stage?
The decoder who is in the movie for about 5 minutes... who betrays Finn and Rose. It is like the writer put himself into a corner and figured, "We'll just have a famous guy play this shit idea and hope people find it compelling."
But I don't want to harmp on it that much. Rei and Drive-Thru Helmet Dude got some decent character development in a film that while far from perfect, was an original film, and had characters that usually mattered what happened to them (what hurt Rogue One).
2.25 of 4
I'm taking a quarter of a point away for some of the obvious Riffs that'll occur in the rifftrax of this film, such as when Skywalker gets that "whatever it was" from that "whatever it was" to drink. The beast looks at Rei and the obvious riff is "Careful honey, that ain't milk."
