tremble said:
Don't get me wrong, I love the characters. I think they've all been phenomenally casted and are really carrying the weight of a trilogy where the story is IMO falling very flat.
Rey being "World's Greatest" at using the force, learning lightsabers for Dummy's in 2 weeks, piloting the Falcon like Han Solo could only dream, etc. would be incredibly grating if Ridley didn't play her with such an incredible touch.
I also think Driver's performance as Ren is giving us one of the most compelling character arcs in the entire series.
I'm just not buying the connections between them all at this point. You're telling me that the First Order couldn't lightspeed jump another fleet directly in front of the non-lightspeed Resistance fleet? Or that non-Jedi force users can now survive in the full vacuum of deep space? There's just a lot of poorly thought out stuff that's detracting from great shooting and acting.
To piggy back on some of this, Rey is another area where I felt really let down by this movie. They did such a great job at build the character in TFA and Ridley does such an amazing job making Rey even more dynamic that the fact her role were pretty much pointless for this movie was really a downer. It seemed like the character was just going through the motions the entire movie, she needed to be trained...poof, you're trained...she needed to find out who her parents were....poof, here's your parents, they're nobody....she needs to find her place in the universe...poof, you're now the last Jedi congrats. All of these big moments in the character's evolution that should have been emotional moments to define the film felt like they were an after thought to a scene the director wanted us to get to (gave us the knowledge, because we as the audience needed to know....I call it the Severus Snape principle, giving a key plot point in the most random, out of context and/or off handed way possible).
This might be more personal as someone who has a 2 year old daughter, and I was excited about a movie hero she could grow up with/identify with that I would enjoy watching too. So I'm a little bit pissed when I see what I think are pivotal moments fumbled in her character development.