What was all the fuss about?

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2018)

When I was in the cinema getting ready to see this movie, I was worried because I've never seen a movie get so much negative backlash of a movie in a while so I was worried but I was genuinely satisfied with it. While it doesn't have problems, it's mostly a good Star Wars movie that is mostly good rather than the polar opposite. To start off with the goods, shall we? The score is incredible which is the standard for these movies but it's still brilliant which is definitely applied to 'The Battle Of Crait' which as IHE said juggles around many themes which I highly appreciate. The cgi is also fantastic which again, may be the standard for these types of movies but it's great so who cares, man? The acting is superb with Mark Hamill's triumphant return to the role of Luke Skywalker which is one of the best things about this movie, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have totally outdone themselves this time by doing even better than there superb performances in The Force Awakens and Kylo Ren being played masterfully by Adam Driver one of my personal favourite actors at the moment who plays probably the most interesting thing in the franchise at the moment. Another thing I love is the way the film separates our heroes and villains by putting them in separate situations which lets you understand where each character is getting at and what they want. The action, while being massively helped by the use of cgi, is very exciting and gripping which is yet again, the norm for these but they are still very good. The cinematography is also fantastic as always and the way the two big plot points merge together at the end in the big battle of Crait is very admirable. Lastly and probably most importantly, I appreciate how Rian Johnson slightly changes the norm of these movies by changing usual plans of past heroes and putting them in that situation and it is usually executed vey well. However, all of this doesn't mean that I think this movie is a ten out of ten masterpiece as there are problems which I am going to now point out. The humour is decent at best and while it does have its moments, it mostly didn't really work for me. The character of Rose is a very polarising character which I can definitely get behind as she wasn't necessarily bad but certainly not good either as I never once thought 'Oh yeah, she's the new gold standard for a Star Wars character!' because she kind of just appears quite early on and we never get a chance to sympathise with her. While those two problems stick out to me a lot, I can't help but admit that I really am a fan of this movie and while it's not anything that special as while Johnson could of gone further with the innovation, he is definitely on the right track. It's a shame that it's not looking like he isn't going to direct the next one, hopefully he's given more chances at massive budget movies because he really is a talented director who deserves even more time to create movies.