Star Wars The Last Jedi

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2017)

Star Wars Episode VIII is truly mainly about the denouement of the story of Jedi master Luke Skywalker who Luke´s own Jedi master makes a cameo as a spirit of the force and assuages the conscience of the conflicted but always good Luke. It is a wonder and awed spectacle each time the elderly countenance of Luke Skywalker appears in the screen, every time is it as awed impressive as the first time Mark Hamill face appeared to see at Rey in the mountain island, the sacred temple island of the Jedi where there are the ancient canon texts of the Jedi, the tree of the Jedi and even a dark side cave under the sea. To see Luke Skywalker in the Last Jedi has the same feeling as in The Force Awakens when Luke grizzly face appears for the first time, now in the Last Jedi is a joy to see Luke Skywalker, and to understand that Luke is played by the same actor that 40 years ago appeared in a New Hope in 1977 and how Mark Hamill had grown old with his character Luke, truly this is one of the best cinema experiences that had transpired as a cinema lover. Now after all this good feelings of joy to finally see Luke Skywalker again and he does speak this time, it is time to get to the film. Again this is Luke´s story and how he has to see what Yoda saw in him so many years ago, when like Luke was now, Yoda had run away after the failures of the wisest of Jedi masters, to stop the rise of Dark Sideus in The Revenge of the Sith. Yoda exiled himself like his student does now, when Luke after his own failures exiled himself in the ocean world island, Yoda and Luke are similar and there is a lot of hope that now Rey who eventually like Yoda did with Luke, now Luke also does with Rey, he reluctantly would become the master Jedi of Rey who would become a Jedi knight and now a Jedi herself, Rey finally can have the teacher and also like Han Solo before, the father she never have. Luke is disillusioned, saddened, depressed, defeated after his failures with Ben Solo, his nephew, he cannot forgive himself from failing to avert the rise of the First Order, and like Anakin before him, Ben Solo followed his grandfather footsteps to make the Sith liked First Order rise in power like Darth Vader did with the rise of the Empire. This is in fact very interesting as is a fact that the creator and the genius who created Star Wars, George Lucas had read 10 000 books in his library and he had read a huge amount of history to create a hugely complex political world in space. One of the themes of the Last Jedi is that although History does not repeat itself, History continue to happen in similar ways, like a wise Levant king once said, there is nothing new under the sun, that is in fact History and George Lucas as the creator of the Star Wars universe, and seeing the complexities of both the rise of the Sith Empire with the help of Darth Vader and the rise of the First Order with the rise of Ben Solo or styled himself Kylo Ren, it can be seen that the director and producers clearly are learned men and women who grasped the historical significance of George Lucas masterpiece.
Luke lives in the island like Yoda, because he wants to escape as far away as he could from his failures in this case Ben Solo, Luke knows he failed him as a Jedi master, he was Ben Solo teacher, and he was his nephew and for a mistake Luke makes when he saw how much darkness was inside Ben Solo, the drama is explained in three great scenes of the Rubicon moment, the no turning back between Luke and Ben Solo, the scene is depicted three times, first as the Luke perspective of the events, then Kylo Ren more visceral version and then most likely the truth of the event as the confrontation between Rey and Luke when Rey demands the truth from Luke. When the story is told finally with veracity, Rey sees wisely that Luke should forgive himself, and that Luke did not failed Ben Solo, the fact was that Ben Solo failed his master, also the same way Anakin failed his master and father in Obi Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith.
Luke is a good man, has always been a hopeful man, he is the man who believed in the Dark Sith Lord Darth Vader in the Return of the Jedi, Luke´s hope has always been vital to Star Wars, and now seeing Luke a broken man, without faith or hope, it is melancholic and sad but all hope and all fight is not gone from the Last Jedi as he will fight one more time. The answers of Rey´s parentage are not given and it is obvious that the corrupt, insidious, malevolent, liar, pernicious Ben Solo, Kylo Ren is not saying the truth about Rey´s parents. The questions of Rey´s parentage and heritage are not given, and one wonders when if ever the questions will ever be answered, who are Rey´s parents, that question keeps Star Wars fans awake at night and the answer is still not given evidently and Rey wonder still who her parents are and although Kylo Ren tells Rey that he knows who Rey parents are, there is little and actually no reason to believe a liar tongue Ben Solo, there is more in Rey´s parents question and hopefully in Episode IX the questions will be answered at last with no gray area with definitive faces as the origin of Rey, everyone wants to know, Rey too wants to know, Star Wars fans demand real answers.
Well, as good as the Last Jedi is, the other parts of the movie when Luke, Rey, are not in are not as good, those scenes are hard to watch, boring even, without much of anything happening. This at the end of the movie becomes a dual match between the two sides of the force, the light and the dark side, represented in Rey´s hopeful side and the hateful and resentful and unforgiving dark side of Kylo Ren and Ben Solo. Overall the Last Jedi is a great movie that is not a masterpiece because of the weaknesses of the other characters and the scenes where there is not much of anything happening, this must be attended to by the producers and directors of the next movies, as there has to be an investment and good writing to make the other character´s arcs and scenes and stories better than the ones in the Last Jedi, perhaps that is the chatter about some fans are talking about in the media, the movie can be better. But as a Star War fans of the older movies, there is a need to tell the truth, if you loved the young Luke Skywalker learning from an elder Obi Wan Kenobi in A New Hope and now you see an elder Luke Skywalker teaching Rey, the new Jedi, you feel happy that the Last Jedi is a great epic poem about one of their heroes, Luke Skywalker and when Luke Skywalker again walks in the sky and in a powerful and beautiful scene when there is the sun, the heat of life, the sun is beginning to dusk and the twilight, nightfall and before the sun goes down, Luke is there in the sky fighting in a astral form and in another plane, with his great power and concentration, he can even change and touch events millions of miles away and when Luke Skywalker, a great Jedi master finally like the sun light at twilight needs to rest, when Luke helps the light and uses the force once again, there is like one of his students say, the new Jedi, that Luke had finally find the peace and the purpose that he had wanted all along, like Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda before him, the force is one with all and Luke hopefully will teach Rey more like Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda continued to teach Luke all along, the Last Jedi is a potent, powerful love poem for one of Star Wars heroes, Luke Skywalker that in a defeated stated said that the Jedi because of their hubris, arrogance had made possible the rise of the Sith Empire in the zenith of their power, and now it was time for the Jedi to end, but the last Jedi saw Rey and perhaps he saw in Rey himself, and against his wishes, the Last Jedi did not let the Jedi order to end, the Last Jedi taught another student, a Jedi knight, a new Jedi to take his place in the sun, and Rey does promised Luke that she will not be like the disappointment student Ben Solo, that Ben Solo failed Luke, and Rey promises that she will not fail the Last Jedi, that she will be a good students, and seeing Daisy Ridley comely, nice, innocent face one believes her and there is hope for the Jedi and for Luke´s legacy and that there could be balance again in the force, Rey is hope, Rey is light like Luke before her, now it is Rey´s time to shine in the light.