The Last Jedi is like pulling into a cul-de-sac with a crack-house on it, getting shot at, doing a U-turn and driving off alive, but shaken. It's a dead end, leaves you feeling lost and confused, you're more jaded and wary, but you live on... and it makes you think twice about where you drive.

When Leia Mary Poppins'd her way from the vacuum of space and lived, I laughed out loud on the theater. Star Wars has done a lot of ridiculous things, but that was the most absurd. I couldn't take anything else seriously after that.

The best thing to come out of these movies has been the Auralnauts parodies.

Interesting review considering that JJ just recently came out and admitted there was no plan for these films. I hope this trilogy is canonically erased and everyone who's seen it gets collective amnesia.

7:48 if they fall from artificial gravity, taking away the gravity doesn't immediately cancel their momentum, they'd still fall

I hate to be That Guy, but...Gravity still works 'in the vaccuum of space.' I'm constantly surprised by people who think it wouldn't.

That crack about Leia's callow youth at the beginning is way off. The Death Star was an existential threat to the Rebellion, so taking it out was an absolute necessity, even if doing so cost the Rebellion a significant chunk of its assets. Poe's stunt cost the Resistance a significant chunk of their assets... to take out a single ship that wasn't really essential to the First Order's plans. You want to go after Leia, go after her for knowing the Empire let them get away from the Death Star and yet she still went directly to the Rebel base, apparently without ever wondering, "Gee, I wonder why they let us go?"

Strongly disagree with you on this one. Any writer / director who is put in charge of a middle chapter in a trilogy and doesn’t bother to keep the story arc from the previous entry is guilty of criminal negligence. Any producer who gives that clown a hundred million to do that is also negligent. Incompetence up and down. From Holdo’s secret plan that she won’t tell anyone about, to yomama jokes, to canto bite, to Snoke.

I wholeheartedly agree with every single rebuttal to your review in this comment section. But there are other channels for that… But I still love your reviews because they are sharp, quick witted and sardonic. “Like the last guy to choke on a peanut the day before the Heimlich maneuver was invented”? Rolling on the floor, laughing my fucking ass off. And saying a little prayer for that guy. Mostly because I don’t want something like that to happen to me…

Good review. This film doesn't need a 3 hr review.

I find your review interesting, and I do agree that Star Wars needed to be shaken up since George Lucas basically remade his own trilogy with the prequels....and had no one to tell him what didn't work. However, TLJ was a convoluted mess; it could have been good but the writing was pretty bad.

I remember sitting there in the cinema watching it for the only time, gobsmacked at how bad this film was, trashing out hero's legacies etc. It almost felt as if it was done out of spite.

I like how the people you described as making it impossible to discuss Star Wars with are all over this comment section lol

This channel does not get enough love

I can vouch about getting into discussions with some Star Wars fans about this film … excruciating

hey... 2023 here... I really love to watch these old "it's a necessary step into the future of SW"-reviews of TLJ. It's really funny to hear the predictions that audiences would turn around and love TLJ as much as they love Empire when actual current day (2023) reality is that they just burnt this franchise to the ground.

Clearly Poe and the other resistance members were seeing Chewbacca off at the end of TFA since he's someone they would have known and he was going off to find Luke Skywalker with his new human side kick.

Great review I’m glad your not blindly hating on this movie for no reason like some people

The best thing in last Jedi was the new imperial walkers

Well what do you know?The force is actually used to lift boulders!

I agree with most of the comments, this sad excuse for a movie is indefensible. Still love you and your channel tho!

This film made me want to never waste money on Disney Star Wars films ever again.

'Bombs that fall because of gravity but within the vacuum of space'? What is the connection? And technically, space is not a vacuum

There's no redeeming qualities to this movie except the Porgs.

The focuse on the skywalkers was a limitation the Disney exects made themselves they made rogue one and solo which didnt focus on them They just wanted money so they focused on the characters people liked

I've seen more memorable films at the local 48 Hour Film Project. This was barely a film. Rian Johnson should stick to his Clue remakes.

Yeah I've enjoyed watching a bunch of your reviews and I have to say I very much like your sense of humour. However, I'm gonna have to say that I totally disagree with your take on this movie. It is pure junk, by a hack director who pretty much destroyed the franchise and where each one of his, "subversion of expectations" was to insert a dumb nothing burger. Quentin Tarantino he is not...

Star Wars is not the same without Han Solo. And the Last Jedi is like an episode of Battlestar Galactica. Fleet stuck in space. Not all that much happens

Yes! Thank you! I have been saying for years now that this movie is genuinely interesting. It takes risks. It fumbles the ball quite a bit here and there, it is by no means perfect, and the entire Canto Bheit thing should have been scrapped, But this movie really did actually take chances. It trusted its audience to be able to accept. The change was inevitable and not just coming, but actually here. I think the core of the movie is when Kylo says to let the pass, go, kill it if you have to. And despite the many flaws in this movie (every scene with Holdo would have been better with Admiral Akbar, so why not use Akbar, someone we know rather than a new character that just vaguely annoys us?) I was genuinely happy because this was the first movie since 1982 genuinely take a chance. I was actually happy. And then, before I even made it out of the theater, my mood crashed. Because the thing fans hate more than anything else in this world is change. They say they want something, but they don’t. They want the old thing, but with a new paint job. Instantly knew this movie was going to create a fire storm and notoriously gutless Disney was going to pull back and try to undo the whole thing, movie would suck. I recognize it all in an instant, and sure enough I was right. But I’m a movie this is acceptable, as a transitional stage in a franchise it’s kind of brilliant, And everybody hates it, because fans are just the worst

The last two films were terrible 😂

Luke deserved so much more than this. We waited all these years to see him as clinically depressed? And would the man who refused to kill his father even momentarily consider murdering his nephew in his sleep? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Beautiful cinematography, yes, but horrible, unforgivable continuity. It stains all that came before--and almost destroys it. I only wish to God we could forget this hideous monstrosity!

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It sucked.

It took chances.... ALL THE WRONG CHANCES. Don't talk about "finally, without the skywalkers" the SAGA IS ABOUT THEM! Fuck Rian and his bullshit script. This film sucks. No one can defend it. TFA is bad but this is PURELY INSULTING. STILL LOVE YOUR REVIEWS THO!

Hated it.

I liked this film the most of the sequel trilogy, despite the weak plotting in the B-story; I *loved* its take on Luke; Mark Hamill gives the performance of his life here--but the reaction to it from fans raised on the 1990s Expanded Universe, not to mention the "go woke go broke" crowd, was so hostile and toxic that it makes it unpleasant to think about in hindsight. And Rise of Skywalker craps on it to such a degree that most of what it was setting up became pointless anyway. I would have liked to see an Episode 9 that really built on TLJ's themes of Kylo maturing into the new Big Bad, blood being less special than we thought, and the Force not belonging to the Jedi, instead of just bringing back a bunch of stuff calculated to be crowd-pleasing (that wasn't anyway). I think it would have made The Last Jedi look better, much as Return of the Jedi, for all its faults, amplified the quality of The Empire Strikes Back.

It was boringly slow moving and shat all over its legacy rather than building on it. I find it unwatchable

the irony that, compared to rise of skywalker, last jedi doesnt seem so bad

“Rey is less annoying then Luke “ Yes and she’s also more skilled in the force than Luke ( she got the Jedi mindtrick with no training) And a better pilot than Luke And also happens to be a better shot than Han despite never being established to have that skill before Do you see the problem

Johnson is a hack. The structure of his writing is bad.

This was an afront to Star Wars fans. Made by someone who did not understand neither care about Star Wars. Inconsistent and incoherent plot. Character assassination. Not to mention a termination of any story arc started with the first one. An absolute cluster.

This sure didn't age well.

Its realy simple, you guys. This is a parallel universe. In our universe, KK, Headland, and the rest of these virtue signaling fools never existed.