Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Andy Serkis, Benicio del Toro, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story:
Space opera fantasy sequel directed and written by Rian Johnson. Star Wars: The Last Jedi follows Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who has been living in peaceful and solitary existence, get his life upended by Rey (Daisy Ridley) and is unwillingly attempted to guide Rey in the ways of the force. Meanwhile, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) leads the First Order in an all-out assault against (Leia Carrie Fisher) and the Resistance for supremacy of the galaxy.
Our Favorite Quote:
'The greatest teacher, failure is.' Yoda (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) Share on X
Best Quotes
Snoke: When I found you I saw raw untamed power, and beyond that, something truly special.
Snoke: You have too much of your father’s heart in you, young Solo.
Kylo Ren: I killed Han Solo. When the moment came, I didn’t hesitate.
Snoke: And look at you, the deed split your spirit to the bone. You were unbalanced, bested by a girl who had never held a lightsaber! You failed! Skywalker lives. The seed of the Jedi Order lives. And as long as it does, hope lives in the galaxy. I thought you would be the one to snuff it out. Alas, you’re no Vader. You’re just a child in a mask.
Rey: I know this place.
Luke Skywalker: Built a thousand generations ago to keep these. The original Jedi texts. Just like me, they’re the last of the Jedi religion. You’ve seen this place. You’ve seen this island.
Rey: Only in dreams.
Luke Skywalker: Who are you?
Rey: The Resistance sent me.
Luke Skywalker: They sent you? What’s special about you? Where are you from?
Rey: Nowhere.
Luke Skywalker: No one’s from nowhere.
Rey: Jakku.
Luke Skywalker: Alright, that is pretty much nowhere.
Luke Skywalker: Why are you here, Rey, from nowhere?
Rey: The Resistance sent me. We need your help. The First Order’s become unstoppable.
Luke Skywalker: Why are you here?
Rey: Something inside me has always been there, but now it’s awake, and I’m afraid. I don’t know what it is or what to do with it, and I need help.
Luke Skywalker: You need a teacher. I can’t teach you.
Rey: Why not? I’ve seen your daily routine. You’re not busy.
Luke Skywalker: I will never train another generation of Jedi. I came to this island to die. It’s time for the Jedi to end.
Luke Skywalker: I failed. Because I was Luke Skywalker. Jedi Master. A legend.
Rey: The galaxy may need a legend. I need someone to show me my place in all this. And you didn’t fail Kylo. Kylo failed you. I won’t.
Luke Skywalker: Lesson one, sit here, legs crossed. The Force is not a power you have. It’s not about lifting rocks. It’s the energy between all things, a tension, a balance, that binds the universe together.
Rey: Okay. But what is it?
Luke Skywalker: Close your eyes. Breathe. Now, reach out.
[Rey closes her eyes and reaches out and Luke starts tickling her hand with a leaf]
Rey: I feel something.
Luke Skywalker: You feel it?
Rey: Yes, I feel it.
Luke Skywalker: That’s the Force.
Rey: Really? Wow, it must be really strong with you. I’ve never felt any…
[suddenly Luke strikes Rey’s had]
Rey: Ow!
Rey: I’ll try again.
Luke Skywalker: Breathe. Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see?
Rey: The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence.
Luke Skywalker: And between it all?
Rey: Balance. An energy. A Force.
Luke Skywalker: And inside you?
Rey: Inside me that same Force.
Luke Skywalker: And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?
Rey: There’s something else beneath the island. A place. A dark place. Balance. Powerful light, powerful darkness. It’s cold. It’s calling me.
Luke Skywalker: Resist it, Rey. Rey! Rey!
Luke Skywalker: [referring to Ray using the Force] You went straight to the dark.
Rey: That place was trying to show me something.
Luke Skywalker: It offered something you needed. And you didn’t even try to stop yourself.
Rey: But I didn’t see you. Nothing from you. You’ve closed yourself off from the Force. Of course you have.
Luke Skywalker: I’ve seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo. It didn’t scare me enough then. It does now.
Rey: I thought I’d find answers here. I was wrong. I’ve never felt so alone.
Kylo Ren: You’re not alone.
Rey: Neither are you.
Rey: [referring to Kylo] You failed him by thinking his choice was made. It wasn’t. There’s still conflict in him. If he were turned from the dark side, that could shift the tide. This could be how we win.
Luke Skywalker: This is not going to go the way you think.
Rey: It is. Just now when we touched hands, I saw his future, as solid as I’m seeing you. If I go to him, Ben Solo will turn.
Luke Skywalker: Rey, don’t do this.
Rey: Then he’s our last hope.
Luke Skywalker: [as [Yoda’s ghost appears] Master Yoda.
Yoda: Young Skywalker.
Luke Skywalker: I’m ending all of this. The tree, the text, the Jedi. I’m going to burn it down.
Yoda: Hmm.
[Yoda uses the Force to bring lightning to burn down the tree and the Jedi texts]
Yoda: Ah, Skywalker. Missed you, have I.
Luke Skywalker: So it is time for the Jedi Order to end.
Yoda: Time it is for you to look past a pile of old books, hmm?
Luke Skywalker: The sacred Jedi texts.
Yoda: Oh. Read them, have you?
Luke Skywalker: Well, I…
Yoda: Page-turners they were not. Yes, yes, yes. Wisdom they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl Rey does not already possess. Skywalker, still looking to the horizon. Never here, now, hmm? The need in front of your nose. Hmm?
Luke Skywalker: I was weak. Unwise.
Yoda: Lost Ben Solo, you did. Lose Rey, we must not.
Luke Skywalker: I can’t be what she needs me to be.
Yoda: Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.
Kylo Ren: Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you were meant to be.
Poe Dameron: You must have a thousand questions.
Finn: Where’s Rey?
Snoke: Darkness rises and light to meet it.
Snoke: Fulfill your destiny.
Kylo Ren: Do you want to know the truth about your parents? Or have you always known and you’ve just hidden it away? You know the truth. Say it. Say it.
Rey: They were nobody.
Kylo Ren: They were filthy junk traders who sold you off for drinking money. They’re dead in a pauper’s grave in the Jakku desert. You have no place in this story. You come from nothing. You’re nothing. But not to me.
Join me.
Finn: I was raised to fight. For the first time I have something to fight for.
Vice Admiral Holdo: When I served under Leia, she would say, hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you’ll never make it through the night.
Finn: Why would you do that? Huh? I was almost there. Why would you stop me?
Rose Tico: I saved you, dummy. That’s how we’re going to win. Not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love.
[she kisses Finn]
Kylo Ren: Did you come back to say you forgive me? To save my soul?
Luke Skywalker: No.
Poe Dameron: [as they watch Luke facing Kylo Ren] He’s doing this for a reason. He’s stalling so we can escape.
Finn: Escape? He’s one man against an army. We have to help him, we have to fight.
Poe Dameron: No, no. We are the spark that’ll light the fire that’ll burn the First Order down. Skywalker’s doing this so we can survive.
Luke Skywalker: I failed you, Ben. I’m sorry.
Kylo Ren: I’m sure you are! The Resistance is dead. The war is over, and when I kill you, I will have killed the last Jedi.
Luke Skywalker: Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong. The Rebellion is reborn today. The war is just beginning. And I will not be the last Jedi.
Kylo Ren: [referring to Rey] I’ll destroy her, and you, and all of it.
Luke Skywalker: No. Strike me down in anger and I’ll always be with you. Just like your father.
Kylo Ren: No.
Luke Skywalker: See you around, kid.
[as Kylo goes to strike Luke he vanishes]
Kylo Ren: No!
Stable Kid: Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master.
Trailer:
While many people have the classic debate in whether the newer Star wars movies can compete with the ‘Original Trilogy’. Many people have lost themselves, in star wars ,as in pop culture it is a ‘must have’ requirement or as it seems. People also forgot (while the trilogy has not yet been finished while writing this ) Star Wars : The Last Jedi is still apart of a trilogy making this very hard to stand alone as its own movie when we are brought into the movie as im sure u have all seen we are greeted with a cliffside dramatic moment or it appears to be, we the viewer if we isolate this movie have no idea what’s going on. The Nolan Trilogy , x men and even the original trilogy. All, of these movies could stand alone and even with the dynamic range of batman and star wars it is still film the last jedi fails to capture and reminiscence of the jedi order and the star wars law and the weapon of the jedi (Lightsaber) has been turned into a comical joke. Even with the well balanced characters of Kylo Ren and Rey ??? … with one of them being persuaded by the light side and one by the dark there still not enough chemistry and when kylo lets the light consume his decisions in the movie there is no regret in any scenes after making it feel very robotic with any thing the movie had done right. Also if people say that disney was making a more comical turn that’s fine if they change the branch of star wars there’s gonna be a lot of nerds like me upset about that but when they give us such a dark movie as rouge one then move it on later to be all happen and a joke while releasing rebels the tv shows which is amazing they cant act surprised when people are at a 50/50 split but i do ask anything of anyone who reads this re watch the movie as not a star wars movie, by itself and see wha6t your thought s are because most likely you will have the opposite opinion
Rating: 2/5
I’m a life-long Star Wars fan. I’ve seen every film in the theatres since the original. As a family guy now, I have taken my entire family to the last two films. Most people who have seen all of the Star Wars films give them a ranking from top to bottom. Honestly, I would rank this one near the bottom of my personal Star Wars scale, second only to Phantom Menace, which featured Jar Jar Binks, a character often noted as the most ill-conceived character in any of the Star Wars movies. From the very beginning of the movie the viewer is forced to suspend reality beyond the typical expectations of sci-fi fantasy. I didn’t realize that there was gravity in space in some places???
Why are there “bombers” attacking the Imperial fleet with gravity bombs??? This just got the whole thing off to a bad start for me. Shortly after that the ship carrying Princess Leia is attacked and she is seen drifting out into space. Then, suddenly, almost completely frozen, she uses the force to draw her back into the ship. Another significant moment of suspending reality that went too far. There are many other issues with the story-line and characters. Laura Dern is not convincing in her role. Luke Skywalker’s character seemed more like a ‘Grumpy old Man’ than a Jedi. Yes, I realize that he has apparently decided to forget his past and live the hermit’s life on a remote island on a remote planet, but there’s a reason that Mark Hamill hasn’t acted in years. He just was never really that good to begin with.
The hand-to-hand fight scene in Snoke’s chambers was just hokie! Why are all the other guards just standing there while Rey and Kylo Ren fight one or two of them at a time? BTW – Kylo Ren seems rather soft, too unfocused to be such an evil character. He just doesn’t have that total buy-in to the dark side that, oh, I don’t know, Darth Vader had. He’s just way too vulnerable!
How many times is the Empire going to be revived?? How did the Rebel forces become so depleted? If Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) is now dead, are they going to revive Luke Skywalker, who apparently became part of the Force at the end of this one? I’m sure that they are already hard at work on the next one. Disney has to get their money’s-worth out of this. All those Star Wars licensed products have to sell to make any real money on these flicks.
A little more thought in the story line and perhaps better directing might have saved this one, but for me it was a snoozer. Honestly, I enjoyed watching Jumanji much more than this episode of Star Wars. I’m sure that they will continue to make a great deal of money from the Star Wars films as they continue to cultivate the next generation of fanatics of the franchise. Personally, I will think twice before laying down my hard-earned cash to see the next one.
Rating: 2/5
(No Spoilers)
The only glimmer of hope to be seen in The Last Jedi was in Carrie Fisher’s facial muscles attempting to move from behind 20 layers of plastic.
It would seem Rian Johnson believes good writing is being reminded you’re watching a Disney film every 5 minutes through some of the most abysmal, cringe inducing dialogue since the days of “I hate sand”.
I knew many people, including myself, had higher hopes for The Last Jedi after the boring rehash that was The Force Awakens. These hopes have yet again been quickly dashed as Rian wastes no time letting us know that we’re in for the longest 2h and 33m a Star Wars fan has faced yet.
There were many scenes during the film that were colossal on the scale of ‘what the actual fuck’ that one can only question the sanity of Mr. Johnson upon completing this utter mess of a picture.
I could only help but yawn through the never ending arcs as 5 second characters are endlessly introduced solely for the sales of their figurine counter parts. I’ve heard Rian Johnson has been given three more films under the Star Wars name and I can’t help but feel they’ve been given to him purely from the projected sales of the never-ending Porg/Plushie collection.
It’s hard for me to explain the complexity of Disney’s latest shit stain without spoiling it, so let me regrettably tell you that Star Wars is officially dead and it’s corpse will be ridden until the end of our life times. So for old times sake, let us look away now, while we still can.
Rating: 2/5
The Force Awakens saw its end when Rey (Daisy Ridley) met Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) handling him over the lightsaber. The Last Jedi which is supposedly the movie where last of the Jedi race will face the dark side and it starts with distinguishing a line between good (The Resistance) and the bad (The First Order). Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) boldly leading the resistance starts her journey to find her missing brother Luke Skywalker.
We bid a sad farewell to Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the Force Awakens but we’ve Kylo Ren this time who has been seduced by the dark side fencing Rey and team. Rey is a Jedi and how she trains to one, whether or not she’ll be able to convince Luke to come back on the field, will the Jedi(s) become extinct? It’s hope vs power & watch the movie to see who wins.
Rating: 5/5