#STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI DRIVER#

#STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI DRIVER#

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.

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.

Star wars the last jedi