Someone I respect... "encapsulated" "The Last Jedi" in I think a pretty dead-on way. Here it is:
"Almost nothing happens in 'Last Jedi' of any consequence.
The bulk of the plot is the cinema's slowest car chase (with plot holes galore.)
Characters go off to find the ONE guy who can hack a computer...except they don't, and find someone else who is conveniently there and can get them out of a prison they land in because they're crap at parking.
A bad guy who is never set up intelligently gets killed.
A character we've been waiting years to see dies (in a way that makes Padme's death look almost intelligent.)
The rebels leave one base to go to another...which they then leave.
There's a climactic fight...in which not one blow is landed.
There's the Leia Poppins moment which is done with such incompetence, you forgive ever harsh thing you ever said about JarJar.
Worst Star Wars Movie. Period."
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