The amount of effort and coordination and honestly luck it takes to make any film: hundreds of craftspeople, thousands of hours, enormous financial risk, it’s kind of a miracle every time one gets made. Even a seemingly vapid and empty blockbuster represents insane coordination and labour. There’s some very competent stuff in here. The hallway shootout scene, there’s some great visual spectacle, Finn, Poe and Chewie’s reaction to Leia’s death plays so well, and the cast generally have great chemistry despite barely sharing any screentime collectively in the previous two films, so while there’s a lot of stupid shit in this movie, I don’t hate it. These sequels are so separate in my mind to the original trilogy, especially with the glut of Star Wars ‘content’ that’s come out in the years since that I simply cannot bring myself to care about, so much so that I’m able to watch this now as just an entertaining legacy sequel that’s only ever meant to be taken at face value, is a separate entity to the version of Star Wars that I love and is on the whole little disappointing, but that’s fine. It literally doesn’t matter. It’s a competent and okay movie.
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