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First impressions on The Last Jedi.

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is nothing, anything and everything a movie of this magnitude (or budget) can be –

it has all sorts of things that don’t essentially resonate that we’ve seen and expected from this franchise (big opening battle scene! new planets! new one-episode characters! MORE COMEDY! MORE ROMANCE! the cyclic Skywalker karma! too much noise!) – disposable information that come with each episode and offshoot of this Billion-dollar franchise;

all sorts of anything that Disney can churn (Kylo and Ray face-off! Ray and Luke face off! Luke and Kylo face off! New creatures! FOUR new creatures! New ships! All things that could become LEGO!) 100 false endings at two and a half hours!

but The Last Jedi also has everything that a good movie, a good chapter in a franchise, and a good fan service could give. While I did expect a few surprises (that didn’t go as I imagined them to go), I was pleased that the storytellers were able to add new things to the narrative – not for the sake of surpises, but twists that add further depth to the saga. Heft. Gravitas. Oh, Luke and Leia. Greek tagedy in the works, sort of thing.

A better narrative than The Force Awakens. See it now in good theaters.

Longer review over the weekend.

(Images from Disney PH)