#STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI BAD REVIEWS MOVIE#
It's called being civil - as well as remembering that there are issues way, way more important than whether or not a particular movie missed the mark. I'm certain that Johnson has movies that he disliked and that the critics who defend "The Last Jedi" also have movies that they disliked, and I hope that they too could disagree with those films' fans without being disagreeable. Given the opportunity, I would jump at the chance to have a respectful conversation with Johnson, who I am certain set out to make a wonderful movie, as well as the millions of people who loved "The Last Jedi." That's the thing about a work of art: It is perfectly OK to dislike it, even dislike it intensely (although my emotions toward "The Last Jedi" can be better characterized as "disappointed" than "outraged"). Of course, these are only my assessments. It's much ado that adds up to, if not nothing, at least less than the sum of its parts. Poe and Holdo have their charms as well - Poe is endearingly plucky and adventurous while Holdo has a quiet bravery and wisdom to her - but their conflict is marred by the fact that it winds up being pointless. After all the strategic S turm und Drang between the two of them has subsided, it's hard to see how the Resistance didn't wind up back exactly where it started, despite Poe's and Holdo's various moments of character growth and/or sacrifice. First, Rose and Finn wind up abandoning their plan halfway through its execution for the flimsiest of reasons and, even worse, have all of their work rendered entirely moot by a betrayal from someone who it was blazingly obvious should never have been trusted in the first place. This is a shame, if for no other reason than the chemistry between Finn and Rose makes them easily the most likable and sympathetic characters in the film. In Plot B we see Finn (John Boyega) team up with a maintenance worker named Rose Tico (Tran) to help Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) circumvent the seemingly incompetent leadership of Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern). While his scenes training Rey (Daisy Ridley) are beautifully done, they can't make up for the fact that the character performing the training feels less like Luke Skywalker than he does Johnson's own original creation with the Skywalker name slapped onto him. Because the explanation for Luke's loss of faith is critical to the film's plot, the perfunctory execution makes everything we're supposed to believe about his character's transformation feel unconvincing. As Mark Hamill himself pointed out, Luke Skywalker's (Hamill) abandonment of his belief in Jedi teachings directly contradicts his personality and actions from the original trilogy, and the backstory filled in here to explain his sudden turn is delivered in startlingly brief monologues instead of scenes that actually flesh out the character dilemmas they're meant to reveal. (Johnson deserves to be commended for his boldness, but audacity is not the same thing as quality.) The problem with "The Last Jedi" is that it doesn't logically connect everything we saw from the previous movies with what happens in this one. That said, "Star Wars" is not "Breaking Bad," and the same narrative tricks that worked for the latter feel jarringly out of place in the former.
Frankly, I'd be shocked if it wasn't instrumental in landing Johnson his "Star Wars" gig. It was a powerful piece of television filmmaking and - because it was suitably epic while remaining rooted in what viewers had come to know and love (or hate) about the characters - felt like an appropriate culmination of their various story arcs.
Without spoiling the story, its purpose was to serve as the climax for all of the major characters viewers had gotten to know throughout the show - the moment when, for everyone from antiheroes Walter White and Jesse Pinkman to their adversary Hank Schrader, the proverbial chickens came home to roost. Appropriately enough, the easiest way to explain my point is to compare "The Last Jedi" to the "Breaking Bad" antepenultimate episode "Ozymandias," which, like "The Last Jedi," was directed by Rian Johnson. I also think the people who have been harassing Kelly Marie Tran, John Boyega, Rian Johnson and other creative individuals who helped make "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" are racist, sexist and all-around deplorable human beings (and I use the term "deplorable" quite deliberately here).īefore I get into the problem of the toxic nerd culture that has caused the harassment of "The Last Jedi" alums like actress Tran, however, I'd like to explain precisely why I think the movie itself was an epic misfire. That is a personal opinion, one with which other men and women of good will should feel comfortable disagreeing. I think "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was a bad movie.
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