Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The third Star Wars film by Disney and the second installment in the new trilogy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi sees Ray meeting Luke and wishing to be trained by him in the ways of the Force while Leia and the Resistance attempt to escape the First Order after destroying the Starkiller Base and not having enough resources to fight back. While the directing, acting, visuals, and action scenes are all really great some of the writing can be a little problematic. Not to say that it's bad, just that while the dialogue is refreshing and every scene is full of great moments a lot of the time it feels like something is missing at some points. All of the past Star Wars films all had multiple stories happening at once over a certain period of time, while with this film there's only two main stories all happening at the most a day or two which feels odd. There's a lot of comedy in this compared to that in The Force Awakens which can work really well but too much happens of it at times. While Rian Johnson does a great job at both directing and writing this installment, one of my biggest complaints is that because he's a fan of Star Wars and mainly the original trilogy in which he grew up with a lot can come of as fan fiction, sometimes good but also bad. The biggest problem that these newer films have is that they rely too much on stuff from the Original Trilogy and try to please too many of those fans. Another problem is that while the film does answer some questions from the previous film, it gives us way too many questions right after and some of the answers it does give just felt unfulfilling and just getting it out of the way. Last Jedi is a fun and fascinating film that has great philosophical moments and a great cast with good chemistry but is hindered by trying too much to satisfy those who grew up with the Original Trilogy and didn't like the Prequels. Over all: 100%
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2. Baby Driver
3. It
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5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
7. Wonder Woman
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
9. Logan
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming
11. Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman
12. Blade Runner 2049
13. Dunkirk
14. War for the Planet of the Apes
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17. The Lego Batman Movie
18. Saban's Power Rangers
19. The Foreigner
20. Justice League
21. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
22. Kong: Skull Island
23. Split
24. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
25. The Fate of the Furious
26. Beauty and the Beast 2017
27. Transformers: The Last Knight