Director Rian Johnson delivers a tidal wave of energy and emotion in the eighth episode of the saga,as Luke, Leia, or Finn and Rey step up to meet their destinyAn old hope. A fresh realism. An old anxiety. A fresh feeling that the Force might be used to channel erotic telepathy,and long-distance evil seduction. The excitingly and gigantically proportioned eighth film in the mighty Star Wars saga offers all of these, as well as colossal confrontations, and towering indecisions and teetering temptations,spectacular immolations, huge military engagements, and very small disappointments. The character-driven face-offs are wonderful and the messianic succession crisis approximately the last Jedi of the title is gripping. But there is a convoluted and slightly unsatisfying parallel plot strand approximately the Resistances strategic military moves as the evil First Order closes in,and an underwritten, under-imagined and eccentrically dressed fresh character – Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and played by Laura Dern.
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Source: guardian.co.uk