The Last Jedi: A Fractured Fable

**There are nothing but spoilers in this review.**

Definitely the most badass poster since ROTJ

In the closing moments of The Last Jedi, there is a wistful moment where the entire franchise’s lynchpin character gazes out over the horizon in the fading sunlight and remembers where he started from. You can sense how much the turmoil over his life has consumed him, and how he has finally found peace. It is a deep and meaningful moment in a movie that can’t decide if ‘deep and meaningful’  is what it wants to be. Does the new trilogy want to commit itself to forging out in new directions that the first trilogy blazed for films to come? Or does it seek to replicate the action-film paint-by-numbers cacophony of last year’s Rogue One in all its superficiality and inauthenticity?