Towering Gwendoline Christie, so wonderful in Game of Thrones, is, ironically, hard to spot. Lupita Nyong’o is in again briefly as the leather-skinned-looking old pirate Maz Kamata. An adventure he shares with a new character, maintenance worker Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), isn’t one of the most compelling interludes of the film’s 162 minutes.
As bold soldier Finn, John Boyega made a big splash two years ago, but his character more or less treads water here he’s reduced to more generic athletics. More crucial is building up audience interest in and sympathy for the new banner carriers for the Resistance, and the results remain mixed. Abrams’ third chapter to this yarn, the still-untitled Star Wars: Episode IX, will land.
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It feels like not nearly as much time is spent with the bad guys than has been the case in previous Star Wars incarnations (no Peter Cushing-back-from-the-dead appearances here).Īs for the one who counts, Kylo Ren, it remains difficult to accept Driver physically as the son of Ford and Fisher (unless there’s a surprise parentage revelation yet to come, which could make for a good joke), although the character’s complexities begin emerging in interesting ways that promise even more surprises in two years’ time, when J.J. Even less clear is where Snoke came from, not to mention how he ended up with a face that looks like a twisted and rotted old tree. Johnson, whose three indie-slanted prior features - Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper - are all crime tales tinged with offbeat humor, is faced with at least two major narrative challenges: to advance the renewed face-off between the resurgent First Order and the beleaguered Resistance and to further develop the characters introduced two years ago.Īs to the first issue, neither here nor in The Force Awakens is it convincingly shown how the demolished Evil Empire was able to bounce back so powerfully just 30 years after its destruction. But what it definitely does is stir the pot with ambivalence on both sides of the good-and-evil equation: Just as Luke is ready to pack it in as far as perpetuating the Jedi tradition is concerned, so does Kylo Ren begin to question his abandonment of his true legacy the tables keep turning here, which is desirable from the dramatic point of view of sustaining fan excitement about what’s in store two years from now and beyond.
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Hardcore series devotees will decide to what extent the new film functions in an equivalent way to how The Empire Strikes Back did in the initial trilogy in 1980. Commercially, Disney is counting on another haul soaring past a billion dollars in worldwide theatrical box office alone. Loaded with action and satisfying in the ways its loyal audience wants it to be, writer-director Rian Johnson’s plunge into George Lucas’ universe is generally pleasing even as it sometimes strains to find useful and/or interesting things for some of its characters to do. Rather, this latest, and longest, franchise entry has the decided feel of a passing-of-the-torch from one set of characters, and actors, to the next. Star Wars has now occupied a galaxy of its own in the zeitgeist for 40 years and shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon to the contrary, each new year brings a new Star Wars film of one kind or another, so using the word “last” in connection with anything to do with the series seems a bit disingenuous.
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