🐟 Resensi Film Star Wars The Last Jedi

Tapikalau dilihat lebih dalam, The Last Jedi mampu meng-establish karakter dengan lebih tajam dan mampu memanfaatkan 2,5 jam untuk menunjukkan storytelling yang sangat bagus, emosi yang terbangun, dan membuat saya sendiri percaya bahwa perdamaian bisa tercipta karena harapan akan selalu ada. Kudos to everyone who makes Star Wars happen. N4D6. Writer/director Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars The Last Jedi” is a sprawling, incident- and character-packed extravaganza that picks up at the end of “Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens” and guides the series into unfamiliar territory. It’s everything a fan could want from a “Star Wars” film and then some. Even the sorts of viewers who spend the entire running time of movies anticipating every plot twist and crowing “called it!” when they get one right are likely to come up short here. But the surprises usually don’t violate the admittedly loose internal logic of the universe George Lucas invented, and when they seem to, it’s because the movie has expanded the mythology in a small but significant way, or imported a sliver of something from another variant of Lucas’ creation Genddy Tartakovsky’s magnificent TV series “Clone Wars” seems to have influenced the last act. The first part of “The Last Jedi” cross-cuts between the remnants of our heroes’ ragtag fleet led by the late Carrie Fisher’s Leia running away from the First Order, aka the next-generation version of the Empire; and Rey Daisy Ridley on the aquatic planet Ahch-To gesundheit! trying to convince the self-exiled Jedi master Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill, whose sandblasted face becomes truly iconic in close-ups to overcome his grief at failing a group of young Jedi trainees and rejoin the Resistance. The New Order's Supreme Leader Snoke Andy Serkis plus CGI has grand plans for both Rey and his Darth Vader-obsessed apprentice Kylo Ren Adam Driver. The leathery old coot may not be a great bad guy—he’s too much of a standard-issue deep-voiced sadist, in a Marvel mode—but he is quite the chess player, and so is Johnson. I’m being vague here on purpose. Suffice to say that, despite being comprised of variations on things we’ve been experiencing directly in “Star Wars” films and indirectly in “Star Wars”-inspired entertainment since 1977, “The Last Jedi” still manages to maneuver in unexpected ways, starting with the decision to build a whole film around a retreat where the goal is not to win but to avoid being wiped out. Along that narrative backbone “The Last Jedi” strings what amount to several tight, often hastily devised mini-missions, each of which either moves the heroes or villains closer to their goals or blows up in their faces. The story resolves in lengthy, consecutive climaxes which, refreshingly, don’t play like a cynical attempt to pad things out. Old business is resolved, new business introduced. And from scene to scene, Johnson gives veteran characters Chewbacca and R2-D2 especially and those who debuted in “The Force Awakens” enough screen time to showcase them at their best while also introducing compelling new faces including a heroic maintenance worker, Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico; a serene and tough vice admiral in the Resistance, played by Laura Dern; a sort of “safecracker” character played by Benicio Del Toro. “Jedi” does a better job than most sequels of giving the audience both what it wants and what it didn’t know it wanted. The movie leans hard into sentiment, most of it planted in the previous installment, some related to the unexpected passing of one of its leads Fisher—thank goodness they gave her a lot of screen time here, and thrilling things to do. But whenever it allows a character to cry or invites us to the catharsis feels earned. It happens rather often—this being a film preoccupied with grieving for the past and transcending it, populated by hounded and broken people who are afraid hope will be snuffed out. Rey’s anguish at not knowing who her parents are and Kylo Ren’s trauma at killing his own father to advance toward his "destiny" literally as well as figuratively mirror each other. Lifting a bit of business glimpsed briefly in “The Empire Strikes Back” and "Return of the Jedi," Johnson lets these all-powerful characters telepathically “speak” to each other across space as easily as you or I might Skype with a friend. This gimmick offers so much potential for drama and wry humor that you might wonder why nobody did it earlier. Sometimes "The Last Jedi" violates our expectations in a cheeky way that stops short of telling super-fans to get over themselves. There’s a touch of “Spaceballs” and “Robot Chicken” to some of the jokes. Snoke orders Kylo to “take off that ridiculous helmet,” Luke chastises an old friend for showing a nostalgic video by muttering “That was a cheap move,” and an early gag finds one of the heroes calling the bridge of a star destroyer and pretending to be stuck on hold. This aspect adds a much-needed dash of self-deprecating humor “The Force Awakens” was often a stitch as well, especially when Han Solo, Chewbacca, BB-8 and John Boyega’s James Garner-like hero/coward Finn were onscreen, but without going so meta that "The Last Jedi" turns into a smart-alecky thesis paper on itself. The movie works equally well as an earnest adventure full of passionate heroes and villains and a meditation on sequels and franchise properties. Like “The Force Awakens,” only more so, this one is preoccupied with questions of legacy, legitimacy and succession, and includes multiple debates over whether one should replicate or reject the stories and symbols of the past. Among its many valuable lessons is that objects have no worth save for the feelings we invest in them, and that no individual is greater than a noble idea. Johnson has made some very good theatrical features, but the storytelling here owes the most to his work on TV’s “Breaking Bad,” a playfully convoluted crime drama that approached each new installment with the street illusionist’s panache the source of delight was always in the hand you weren’t looking at. There are points where the film appears to have miscalculated or made an outright lame choice this becomes worrisome in the middle, when Dern’s Admiral Holdo and Oscar Isaac’s hotshot pilot Poe Dameron are at loggerheads, but then you realize that it was a setup for another payoff that lands harder because you briefly doubted that “The Last Jedi” does, in fact, know what it’s doing. This determination to split the difference between surprise and inevitability is encoded in “The Last Jedi” down to the level of scenes and shots. How many Star Destroyers, TIE fighters, Imperial walkers, lightsabers, escape pods, and discussions of the nature of The Force have we seen by now? Oodles. But Johnson manages to find a way to present the technology, mythology and imagery in a way that makes it feel new, or at least new-ish, starting with a shot of Star Destroyers materializing from hyperspace in the sky over a planet as seen from ground level and continuing through images of Rebel ships being raked apart by Imperial cannon fire like cans on a shooting range and, hilariously, a blurry video conference in which the goggle-eyed warrior-philosopher Maz Kanata voiced by Lupita Nyong'o delivers important information while engaging in a shootout with unseen foes. She calls it a “union matter.” There’s greater attention paid here to color and composition than in any entry since “The Empire Strikes Back.” Particularly dazzling are Snoke’s throne room, with its Dario Argento-red walls and red-armored guards, and the final battle, set on a salt planet whose flat white surfaces get ripped up to reveal shades of crimson. Seen from a distance, the battlefield itself seems to be bleeding. The architecture of the action sequences is something to behold. A self-enclosed setpiece in the opening space battle is more emotionally powerful than any action sequence in any blockbuster this year, save the "No Man's Land" sequence of "Wonder Woman," and it's centered on a character we just met. There are spots where the film can’t figure out how to get the characters to where it needs them to be and just sort of shrugs and says, “And then this happened, now let’s get on with it.” But there are fewer such moments than you might have gone in prepared to forgive—and really, if that sort of thing were a cinematic crime, Howard Hawks would have gotten the chair. Most importantly, the damned thing moves, both in a plot sense and in the sense of a skilled choreographer-dancer who has visualized every millisecond of his routine and practiced it to the point where grace seems to come as easily as breathing. Or skywalking. Matt Zoller Seitz Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of TV critic for New York Magazine and and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Now playing Film Credits Star Wars The Last Jedi 2017 Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence. 152 minutes Latest blog posts about 4 hours ago about 7 hours ago about 8 hours ago 1 day ago Comments Star Wars The Last Jedi Reviews Movie Reviews By Reviewer Type All Critics Top Critics All Audience Verified Audience Prev Next Rian Johnson's Star Wars The Last Jedi is an emotionally-driven culmination of all that came before it and an adoring love letter to George Lucas. Full Review Jan 9, 2023 “The Last Jedi” has some early pacing issues and a few things that simply don’t make sense. But it’s still a fantastic Star Wars experience filled with excitement, emotion, and nostalgia. Full Review Original Score Aug 25, 2022 Johnson's film supplies the requisite spectacle that casual fans expect, while devoted enthusiasts have new, complex ideas to consider for the franchise's future. Full Review Original Score Mar 16, 2022 Star Wars The Last Jedi was everything I hoped for and more. Full Review Original Score 4/4 Feb 18, 2022 Rian Johnson has given us a Star Wars film that actually is a genuine evolution of the series in style, narrative, and emotion. Full Review Original Score Dec 29, 2021 As a sensational Star Wars vehicle and a pensive reminder of ideals for any age, The Last Jedi holds its lightsaber high - a beacon for what these films can be, and what they can impart. Full Review Sep 9, 2021 Rian Johnson brings freshness and originality... Full Review Aug 24, 2021 As much into de-mythologizing the Force as it is relishing in its fantastic fight choreography and intergalactic dogfights. Full Review Original Score A- Aug 24, 2021 The Director and The Jedi is long on time but has enough sentiment to satisfy. Full Review Jul 28, 2021 Not all its risks pay off, but its biggest wins outdo anything in the previous film. For fans, there are many, many moments that will leave you cheering or weeping, possibly both at once. Full Review Original Score 4/5 Apr 29, 2021 The Last Jedi doesn't entirely detach from the mythological themes and fantasy tropes Lucas' movies played with - but it feels like the start of a brave new world. Full Review Original Score 4/5 Feb 16, 2021 ... simultaneously dark and funny with more twists and turns than a ride aboard the Millennium Falcon. Full Review Jan 27, 2021 Much of this picture involves space battles, which, while exciting in the moment, has very little lasting power. Full Review Original Score 6/10 Dec 5, 2020 A film that will make you want to watch it again and again and again. Full Review Original Score Sep 24, 2020 The Star Wars universe is vast with so many potential stories to tell. The Last Jedi met my expectations because it was an attempt for the franchise to do something different that most blockbuster films struggle with. Full Review Original Score 4/5 Aug 26, 2020 In terms of directing, The Last Jedi shines. In terms of storytelling, it meshes together a lot of elements that have so much potential, but that potential is left untapped. Full Review Original Score 3/5 Jul 23, 2020 The Last Jedi attempts to use the past merely as a stepping-stone to build its own identity. Full Review Original Score B Jul 17, 2020 Rian Johnson has given us a breathtaking visual spectacle to go along with his plot, one which respects the viewer's intelligence and doesn't just hand-feed you. It's not just the characters that get a dose of expansion, but the saga as a whole. Full Review Jul 17, 2020 In Which the Force, Having Awakened, Gets Some Badly Needed Coffee Full Review Jul 1, 2020 Its aesthetics adds a different proposal to the Star Wars formula, in which it balances pompous action and moving moments very well with self-reference and humor. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review Original Score 7/10 Jun 27, 2020 Prev Next Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review? Star Wars The Last Jedi has a large burden on its shoulders. The 2017 film is not only the highly anticipated follow-up to Abrams' rousing and wildly successful 2015 revival of the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, it also has The Empire Strikes Back looming over its head. The 1980 film has long been held up as the high watermark of sequels, let alone the peak of the Skywalker saga. How can any new Star Wars movie hope to measure up to such a pinnacle? The answer arriving this weekend presents a self-aware mirror image of the 1980 film, and pushes its familiar characters further than ever before. The Last Jedi, amazingly, moves above and beyond its predecessor, just like The Empire Strikes Back did decades your sake, and not just to placate the Disney/Lucasfilm empire, it's best to know as little as possible going into The Last Jedi. As the closing moments of The Force Awakens suggested, the orphaned young scavenger Rey Daisy Ridley begins here by reaching out to the reclusive Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill on the mysterious island where he's lived in solitude for years. Elsewhere, Finn John Boyega, Poe Dameron Oscar Isaac, General Leia Organa the late Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the Resistance attempts to ward off the ever-encroaching First Order despite their dwindling numbers. The rest is worth discovering for there is a lot more going on here, much to the credit of writer/director Rian Johnson. In recent days, this film has made at least a couple of headlines for being the longest film yet in the Star Wars franchise, clocking in at over 150 minutes. Johnson uses that length to his advantage, introducing us to new characters and planets without giving them short shrift. Rey, Finn, Poe, and the other characters are all here, but newbies like Rose Kelly Marie Tran and Vice Admiral Holdo Laura Dern and even the more mysterious figures from the previous film like the menacing Snoke Andy Serkis get a brief spotlight. And new locations like a planet dominated by a flashy casino-like city and a salt-mine base offer both stunning visuals and commentaries on modern Last Jedi is at its best when it aims to upend expectations. Rey's desire to get answers from Luke is quickly thrown into disarray as it becomes clear how he's become used to isolation over time, as punishment for his past misdeeds. But even in early moments like when the Resistance tries to pull a fast one on the First Order, Johnson proves most adept at poking holes in any perceived self-seriousness in this sometimes operatic franchise. Even without the series' constant source of quips Han Solo, The Last Jedi is disarmingly funny even as it depicts dark, intense as with The Force Awakens, one of this film's core strengths is its solid casting. Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, and John Boyega are once again exciting to watch, as the new core group is broken apart. How Johnson is able to get a specific but unnamed in this review two of those four to talk to each other, in a sense, is not only very clever, but it has a great payoff. Tran, as the big new character Rose, is as charming to watch for the first time as Ridley and Boyega were two years ago. Through Rose, we see another overtly political argument seeded in the franchise, depicting the haves and have-nots in pointed and timely there's also a ton of action here, befitting both the larger franchise and Johnson's past work. One major fight scene heavily recalls a slow-motion setpiece from Johnson's 2012 science-fiction film Looper. Amidst the drama, the air and space battles grow in intensity. There's also a few lightsaber tete-a-tetes that rank among the more shocking moments in the that's the most exciting part of the very exciting The Last Jedi after 40 years, the Star Wars series knows how to be surprising. Rian Johnson slips so easily into writing and directing within this world that it's both thrilling to imagine more of his vision in this universe, and a little disappointing that he won't direct the conclusion. But he has at least helped bring The Last Jedi to fruition. It's not just a rollicking and entertaining follow-up to The Force Awakens; The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back, and is awful close to being its equal./Film Rating 9 out of 10

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