A Walt Disney Picture, Written by JJ Abrams, Chris Terrio, Colin Trevorrow, and Derek Connolly, Directed by JJ Abrams.
This is far from a perfect film. In fact, it’s a sloppily edited, poorly plotted, and mostly badly written film that is probably the lowest in quality of the trilogy. However, from a simply fan perspective, while I didn’t like some of the decisions, it still found a way to provide a mostly satisfying end to the saga.
Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver stand out due to the complexity of their roles, and while we know Driver has a long and prestigious career ahead of him, if Daisy Ridley chooses her next roles well, then she could too, as she is very talented. Oscar Isaac finally gets to play a version of Poe that we all wanted to see and he does so brilliantly.
On a side note, for those of you like me who love British actor Jodie Comer, she is in this film in two small but key scenes, which is great to see, and I can’t wait for her film career to launch big time next year.
I will go into much more details in my full spoiler review, but what I can say is that this is a very Rey centric story that feels like multiple films stuck in one, and that slightly too many moments may have been inspired by reddit or the like. It mostly rewrites the Last Jedi and therefore makes itself seem silly in places with crazy plot ‘twists’ but it also has many lightsaber battles and some really interesting action scenes to keep people entertained.
Most of all, it finally finds a way to mix the old and new casts without disrespecting either, and this therefore goes a long way to make it feel like it isn’t just the end of the trilogy, but it’s the end of the saga.
This film made some bad choices, it made some good ones, it was way too ambitious and also slightly cynical, but most of all, on a simply emotional fan basis, it provided a powerful and definitive end to one of the greatest sagas in cinema history.
Long live the Skywalkers!
Rating = 3/5
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