Deus Ex Machina loaded moral Absolutism disguised as moral complexity

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2017)

Once more we have a movie that has too many convient coincidences that allow the protagonists to succeed whilst being the purer than driven snow good guys. Far too often you see main characters face situations where they conveniently get out of them with skills they haven't developed and have no reason to have. 'The Force' seems to have become a convenient tool for deus ex machinas. The film also has a few moments where it pretends to suggest moral ambiguity, but that turns out to be a red herring as it doesn't even get explored and the movie largely promotes the heroes as the unimpeachable good guys. Painfully disappointing given how the movie was sold as the birth of the grey jedi