How could it not be? But Johnson makes the most of individual scenes, shaping each with care and vigor. Johnson has to deal with the classic Star Wars franchise problems-you’ve got to find something meaningful for all these characters to do, and all of it must cohere into an at least semi-meaningful plot. A ridiculous bully who thinks he’s classy is one of the funniest things in the world, and Johnson signals to us that he knows it.įrom there, The Last Jedi takes off like a shot.
“Open fiah!” he commands, in a line that brings down the house. Poe responds with a virtual yawn: He hears every word Hux is saying, but he acts as if he couldn’t care less. Domhnall Gleeson’s officious General Hux is the commander of a warship ready to whup the Resistance’s ass-he’s advancing on the ship commanded by the group’s leader, former-princess-now-general Leia (Carrie Fisher), and in the movie’s early moments, he gets on the horn to give scrappy Resistance pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) what for. Meanwhile, the Resistance rages, both surreptitiously and obviously, against the First Order.
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When he removes his Vaderesque mask for the first time in The Last Jedi, his face bears physical scars and emotional ones, mostly around the eyes: As Driver plays him, even his irises look bruised. It’s clear he hasn’t felt so great since. Abrams), he killed Han Solo (Harrison Ford), who, it turned out, was his own father. But some of the wind has gone out of Ren’s sails: Last time around, in the 2015 The Force Awakens (directed by J.J. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), an ambitious up-and-comer in the world of evil, taking all his cues-and wardrobe inspiration-from his idol Darth Vader, has been currying favor with the First Order Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), a sinister boss king who looks like a desiccated 200-year-old Kirk Douglas in one of Lana Turner’s Adrian gowns. The story, peopled by characters created in a galaxy far, far away by George Lucas, is easy to grasp even for neophytes: The old Empire has crumbled and the fascist First Order has risen in its wake.
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