I really like the pointlessness of the final battle. "Yeah it looks cool and totally heroic but you are better off doing something Boring But Practical" is a great message in a franchise full of War Is Glorious.
And they did send signals everywhere, but no one answered them.
Where there's life, there's hope.I mean the last battle looked great, it was very visually striking. My feelings are less that the final battle was pointless in itself, and more that it was just an added layer of bloat on an already 2+ hour movie. It\'s a detriment to the movie because of how much time it adds to the runtime - by the end, any victory seemed hollow because I just wanted to leave.
The bombing run at the start of the movie was purposely pointless in the context of the movie. It sets up Rose and kickstarts the main conflict, but Poe\'s cowboy antics get a bunch of people killed and shrinks the Resistance at a time where they need as many people on-board as they can get. Poe doesn\'t care because they took down a Dreadnought, but Leia calls it out as a pointless flyboy exercise in futility. In comparison, the last fight feels like it means something, but it comes after two other climactic fights with Rey and Kylo, then Finn and Phasma, and it stretches on for another half hour (after two whole hours of Star Wars already!) to little effect. It\'s Ending Fatigue, at least I think so, and cutting it short after Leia sends out the call (and/or cutting the ending down from around the point where the rebel ships are being shot down, and working it into a more concise package instead of adding another CGI Disney money-fest right at the end) would have been a better option in my opinion.
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I liked it. **spoilers**
As of the writing of this review, there are like eight or nine other Last Jedi reviews right at the top of the Review section. This is mine.
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