One of the best SW movies

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2018)

The amount of negative reviews is getting ridiculous. Ryan Johnson made one of the best films in SW-franchise and very decent piece of cinematography. His approach is actually quite close to that of George Lucas. SW began as independent film, bold and experimental, and Lucas always held to that, in prequels too, inspite of all the critic from old fans. Here, with Ryan Johnson, we see the same boldness, the same readiness to explore and invent something new. The so called Canon, set of immutable laws - as it always happens, not only on SW, but in life, - in public reception replaced that what gave life to the series in the first place - and that is imagination.
Last Jedi is surprising, - it always goes not the way you think, with several major unpredictible twists, - fascinating and emotionally engaging, with accent on charachter development - which, again, was one of the main traits of Lucas's films.
The metamorphose of Luc is actually the only logical explanation of his exile - how else would you explain his abandonment of all the people he cared about? It is guilt, that is rationalized through his critic of the Jedi way as such.
Episode with Leya in space was a little over the top, but - especially in the sad context of this movie being Carry Fisher's last appearance - it played beautifully and moving.
The logic of the chase scene is explained in the movie and makes sense, I don't understand the critic here.
The whole Monte-Carlo sequence is overextended, it was made to explore the characters of Finn and Rose, but it introduces two important charachters - DJ, who is great in his opposition of the classic good-bad-guy Han Solo, being bad-bad-guy, and the boy who played a significant symbolic role in the end of the film.
The whole un-answering-the-big-questions thing, that irritated the fans the most - is due to the fact, that Johnson shifted the accent towards the psychological exploration of the characters, sometimes at the expense of the plot development.
This movie certainly has its flaws, but overall it doesn't deserve all this reactionary and irrational hatred that it received from fans. Mainly because it didn't resort to being the simple fan-service attraction (which you could have expected from Disney), instead being a decent stand-alone inovative and imaginative movie in SW universe.