Almost Perfect - It's brave and bold and beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2017)

The Last Jedi is astounding; Rian Johnson has done an admirable job. It's the first Star Wars movie with nuance and has genuine character development. Every shot means something to the greater whole of the movie and Johnson's approach fixes a lot of the force issues that Lucas introduced in the prequels. The middle section is a little long and doesn't add much to the overall plot and this is my only minor gripe. Stay the course because the final third of the film delivers with pay off after pay off. I'm upset audiences seem to have quite juvenile issues with this chapter because Star Wars need this - it needed a re-interpretation and re-imagination; it needed an auteur like Johnson tackling its mythology and 40 year characters because you simply cannot have episode after episode of the same thing repeated over and over. Thank you Rian Johnson for a movie with feeling and originality and for making The Last Jedi the 3rd best Star Wars movie (after 4 & 5).