The Old Wars

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2019)

Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away.... The money speak! What was a universal story with heart and bold vision is now a narrow-minded story concerned with irrelevant minutia. The Empire won, but the past pieces of legendary story telling will still be there for us and the generations.
The Last Jedi brought back Star War to the broad universal mythological realm of storytelling. The last 9th episode was the real chance to finish the story in bold strokes on the broad canvas of human mythology and open it for the future. Instead it chose to stick to the past and limit it's appeal to the current generation of fans, thus preventing it both from greatness and its future.
Once again, the story of the original trilogy is repeating - The new hope and The empire strikes back were the masterpieces and responcible for that were both - George Lucas & Gary Kurtz. For the final film the money spoke to George, Gary stepped away and the Return of the Jedi was repetitive and prioritized on profiting from toys and merchandised. Same happened here - Kathleen started it save but also in the right direction with the Force Awakens with regards to the weak prequel trilogy and then continued it bravely with the Last Jedi bringing the trilogy back to greatness. Alas, money spoke again - they parted with the bravery of the Last Jedi and came back to the save old stuff just to get the money. In Bulgarian the sounding of the word 'Star' means 'Old'. Well, instead for reaching to the stars, episode 9 went for the same thing over and over again just for the profit and serving the past, turning the story to the 'Old Wars'.