6/27/2023 0 Comments Was star wars the last jedi bad![]() To give a cursory overview of the needlessly convoluted plot: Princess (now general) Leia Organa leads the aforementioned ragtag Resistance fleet in a desperate escape from the evil First Order. The film, of course, follows its characters through the standard Star Wars second act epitomized by the beloved “Empire Strikes Back”: Everything goes to hell and the ragtag fleet of good guys desperately tries to escape from all but certain destruction while, elsewhere, a young would-be apprentice struggles with the nature of his or her nascent powers. These appear to be the only solutions to the problem, because “The Last Jedi” is not simply bad, it is incompetent on the most basic level. There are, of course, two possible explanations for this: The critics are stupid or have been paid off by Walt Disney’s dark lords. The critics have been, by and large, rapturous, with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone exemplifying the critical consensus by saying the film is “simply stupendous, a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption.” To be fair, to hold this opinion places a person in something like a minority of one.
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