It's a brave risk that writer-director Roan Johnson has taken to sacrifice storytelling pace for providing back story to more epic action adventures for future to this intergalactic saga.
Right from the beginning, Johnson's writing is ingenious and firm, stamping his own vision and wresting the story away from Abrams' 2015 reboot (Force Awakens). For the average audience the pace in writing may be slow but Johnson gives us a grand, full throttle 3rd act that surely would make opinions made till then, take a U-Turn through one of the wildest and most intense climax sequences you will ever see!
All along in this colossal galactic journey, we also see some of the puzzles of the prequels come together like Lego bricks and that's when it all makes sense why this edition of Star Wars is character driven and not just a bombastic space ride.
Stellar background score (as always) aided by some of the best story board work this year (the creatures that we see would surely resemble our childhood fantasies), some neck deep characterization (especially the telepathic face-offs between Rey and Ren) and terrific introductions to more buzzing characters work further in favour of this explosive spectacle.
It's amazing how Johnson managed to bring new flavours to Last Jedi and even more when you think how much this pop culture infested series has matured so much over the last 2-3 films.
Barring the anticlimactic moments that pop up almost in every scene, it is impossible not be overwhelmed in the movie hall by this euphoric, buzzing with self belief film.
****/5
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