I was not expecting much from this latest creation in the Star Wars world, the last few movies were a whole lot of ehhh, to me. I didn't dig that it seemed like we needed to be rescued by a girl, just to make it fair since it was a man last time around. Getting past that, they respected enough of the history to keep us looking for more throughout the movie.
In the first of this 3 part series, Rey (our heroine) finds the Millenium Falcon junked but still working and I called bullshit that after sitting for years, it just fired up and vamoose, let the action begging. At least by this time, logically, one can figure it has been worked on by the other rebels and if it is their spacecraft of choice, so be it. It did make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, so she's fast. We finally saw Rey training with Leia, so at least if she is a bad-ass Jedi warrior, she has seen some training. It was a stretch to say Luke trained her and then Leia could do the same, but at least it tracked.
C3PO finally was sounding like a part of the group before he was rebooted, which was nice, but really, R2D2 should have gone on the mission and C3PO should have stayed with Leia, R2 was always the warrior and C3PO the more scared of the two. Still, it was cool to see C3PO be a real part of a scene and he even looked scary when his eyes turned red.
It was great to see Lando Calrissien fighting with the Rebels, he is about the last of the old guard still "alive" and not a hologram or a special effect, no offense to the rest of the cast. It was such a scary sight to see Chewbacca get taken away by the stormtroopers without a fight even, then the next scene was a shocker and led me to believe that Rey was going to turn to the darkside and Kylo would save the day. It didn't turn out completely that way, but almost.
The most touching scene was that after Kylo Ren was defeated yet again by Rey, he finally let go of the anger and hatred and he became simply Ben again and he was visited by a ghost of Han Solo. That was a tear jerker or sure. As a father, to be killed by your own kid wile giving them everything felt a little close. I loved the implied "Dad, I love you" (Ben didn't say it, but the hug did) and Han, cool as always, simply says "I know" (like he always did). And with that, we knew he was no longer a bad guy.
There was even one last touch of nostalgia as Rey ended up in Luke's creepy island when she fears she might be evil and she has destroyed her ship, Luke does a little Jedi magic and pulls his old Red 5 X-Wing Fighter out of the ocean, again ready to fly without any maintenance. There was of course, the storyline of saving the universe, and the lame "old bad guy who doesn't seem to ever die, COME ON!!!" (I FUCKING HATE SHIT LIKE THAT!). Palpatine is still the center of all evil, which I find tired and lazy (the writing). There were more and more characters introduced, even new lightsabers, but the Rebels kept it small and tight, relying on the same group of the robots, Lando, Chewbacca, Rey, Finn and Poe.
I have to say this was a better effort than the last two films and specially that horrid one Rogue One where we have to accept that all the characters died on that planet, uggh! We are fucking Americans, we go to the movies to escape reality and see the good guys win. I can deal with maybe one good hero dying, but that is about my limit.
I am not sure if the Star Wars universe will keep getting explored, but shows like Mandalorian are pretty good ideas. If they do, they need to keep a little of the magic in there. Without jedis, it really is just a space western, as it is always labeled. The jedis are what make these movies magically delicious.
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