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Star Wars: The Force of the Last Jedi is a 2017 Sci-fi space opera film directed by J.J. Abrams, and Rian Johnson. the movie was released on December 15, 2017.

Plot
Thirty years after the Galactic Civil War, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to eliminate the New Republic. The Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes the First Order. Leia searches for her brother, Luke Skywalker, who has gone missing.

On the desert planet Jakku, Resistance pilot Poe Dameron receives a map to Luke's location from Lor San Tekka. Stormtroopers commanded by Kylo Ren raid the village and capture Poe, while Kylo kills San Tekka. Poe's droid, BB-8, escapes with the map and encounters a scavenger named Rey near a junkyard settlement. Kylo tortures Poe using the Force and learns of BB-8. Stormtrooper FN-2187, disillusioned by the First Order, frees Poe, and they escape in a stolen TIE fighter. Upon learning that FN-2187 has no other name, Poe gives him the name "Finn". As they head to Jakku to retrieve BB-8, they are shot down by a First Order Star Destroyer and crash-land. Finn survives and assumes that Poe died in the crash. He encounters Rey and BB-8, but the First Order tracks them and launches an airstrike. Finn, Rey, and BB-8 steal the Millennium Falcon from the junkyard; Finn shoots down their First Order pursuers as Rey pilots the ship off the planet.

A large ship piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca captures and reclaims the Falcon. Gangs seeking to settle debts with Han attack the ship. Han and the others escape in the Falcon. At the First Order's Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a star-powered superweapon, Supreme Leader Snoke allows General Hux to use the weapon for the first time. Snoke questions Kylo's ability to deal with emotions relating to his father, Han Solo, who Kylo states means nothing to him.

Aboard the Falcon, Han determines that BB-8's map is incomplete. He then explains that Luke attempted to rebuild the Jedi Order but exiled himself when an apprentice turned to the dark side, destroyed the temple, and slaughtered the other apprentices. The crew travels to the planet Takodana and meets with cantina owner Maz Kanata, who offers assistance getting BB-8 to the Resistance. Rey is drawn by the Force to a secluded vault, where she finds the lightsaber once belonging to Luke and his father, Anakin Skywalker, before him. She experiences disturbing visions and flees into the woods, confused and terrified. Maz gives Finn the lightsaber for safekeeping.

Starkiller Base destroys a planetary system that is home to the New Republic's capitol and senate, and a portion of its fleet. The First Order attacks Takodana in search of BB-8. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn are saved by Resistance X-wing fighters led by Poe, who survived the crash. Leia arrives at Takodana with C-3PO and reunites with Han, who says he saw their son (Kylo Ren). Meanwhile, Kylo captures Rey and takes her to Starkiller Base, but she resists his mind-reading attempts. Discovering she can use the Force, Rey escapes using a Jedi mind trick on a guard.

At the Resistance base on D'Qar, BB-8 finds R2-D2, a droid who has been inactive since Luke’s disappearance. As Starkiller Base prepares to fire once more, the Resistance devises a plan to destroy it by attacking the main facility. Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca, and Finn infiltrate the facility, find Rey, and plant explosives. Han confronts Kylo, calling him by his birth name, Ben, and implores him to abandon the dark side. Kylo seems to consider this, but ultimately refuses and kills his own father. Devastated, Chewbacca shoots Kylo and sets off the explosives, allowing Poe to attack and destroy the base's thermal oscillator, which begins a fatal chain reaction from the planet's core.

The injured Kylo pursues Finn and Rey into the woods. Finn fights Kylo to protect Rey, but Kylo knocks him unconscious. Rey takes the lightsaber and channels the Force to defeat Kylo in a duel; they are then separated by a fissure as the planet surface begins to splinter. Snoke orders Hux to evacuate and bring Kylo to him to complete his training. Chewbacca rescues Rey and the unconscious Finn, and they escape aboard the Falcon. As the Resistance forces flee, Starkiller Base implodes, forming a star. On D'Qar, Leia, Rey, and Chewbacca mourn Han's death. R2-D2 awakens and reveals the rest of the map, which Rey and Chewbacca use to find the oceanic planet Ahch-To via the Falcon.

After landing on a small remote island, Rey climbs the rock-carved steps to the top of the island, where she finds Luke Skywalker. Without a word, Rey presents him with his father's lightsaber.

General Leia Organa leads the evacuation of Resistance forces from D'Qar, when a First Order fleet arrives. Against Leia's orders, Poe Dameron leads a costly counterattack that destroys a First Order dreadnought. The remaining Resistance escapes into hyperspace, but the First Order uses a device to track them, and attacks again. Kylo Ren hesitates to fire on the lead Resistance ship after sensing his mother Leia's presence on board, but his wingmen destroy the bridge, killing most of the Resistance's leaders. Leia is dragged into space, but survives by using the Force. While Leia recovers, Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo assumes command of the Resistance. Running low on fuel, the remaining fleet is pursued by the First Order.

Rey attempts to recruit Luke Skywalker to the Resistance. Under self-imposed exile, Luke refuses to help and says that the Jedi should end, but encouraged by R2-D2, he trains Rey in the ways of the Force. Rey and Kylo begin communicating through the Force, which puzzles them both. After Kylo tells Rey what happened between him and Luke that caused him to choose the dark side, Luke confesses that he momentarily contemplated killing Kylo upon sensing that Snoke was corrupting him; this prompted Kylo to destroy Luke's new Jedi Order. Convinced that Kylo can be redeemed, Rey leaves Ahch-To. Luke prepares to burn the Jedi library, but hesitates. The spirit of Luke's master Yoda appears and destroys the library by summoning a bolt of lightning. He encourages Luke to learn from his failure.

Meanwhile, Poe entrusts Finn, mechanic Rose Tico, and BB-8 with a secret mission to deactivate the First Order's tracking device. Maz Kanata directs them to the casino town of Canto Bight, where they meet the hacker DJ. Pursued by the First Order, they escape the city with the help of stablehand children and racing animals they set free. Finn, Rose, and DJ infiltrate Snoke’s flagship, but are captured by Captain Phasma. Meanwhile, Kylo brings Rey to Snoke, who reveals that he created the connection between her and Kylo as part of a plan to defeat Luke.

Holdo plans to evacuate the remaining members of the Resistance using small transport vessels. Believing her plan to be cowardly and futile, Poe leads a mutiny. Leia recovers and stuns Poe with a blaster, allowing the evacuation to proceed. Holdo remains aboard the ship as a decoy to mislead Snoke's fleet as the others flee to an abandoned base on Crait. DJ buys his freedom by revealing the Resistance's plan to General Hux, and the First Order fleet begins firing on the evacuation transports, destroying many.

Ordered to kill Rey, Kylo instead kills Snoke and defeats his Praetorian Guard with her help. Rey hopes that Kylo has abandoned the dark side, but he instead asks her to rule the galaxy with him. Refusing, she battles him for control of Luke’s lightsaber, bisecting the weapon. Holdo sacrifices herself by slicing through Snoke's flagship at lightspeed, crippling the First Order fleet. Rey escapes the destruction while Kylo declares himself Supreme Leader. BB-8 frees Finn and Rose; they defeat Phasma and join the survivors on Crait. When the First Order arrives, Poe, Finn, and Rose attack with obsolete speeders. Rey and Chewbacca draw TIE fighters away in the Falcon, while Rose stops Finn from sacrificing himself. The First Order penetrates the Resistance fortress using a siege cannon.

Luke appears and confronts the First Order, allowing the surviving Resistance to escape. Kylo orders the First Order's forces to fire on Luke, but they fail to harm him. He then engages Luke in a lightsaber duel; upon striking Luke, Kylo realizes that he has been fighting Luke’s Force projection. Rey helps the remaining Resistance escape on the Falcon. An exhausted Luke dies peacefully on Ahch-To, becoming one with the Force. Rey and Leia sense his death, and Leia tells Rey that the Resistance can rise again.

At Canto Bight, the stablehands recount the story of Luke Skywalker; afterward, one of them moves a broom with the Force and gazes into space.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There isn't any real transition between Return of the Jedi and this film; for example, it isn't explained how the First Order rose into power. The information on what actually happened between the two films is instead shunted off into external sources.
 * 2) The film lazily takes several elements from A New Hope:
 * 3) A protagonist living in a harsh desert planet and escaping with another character and a stolen droid with vital information in the Millennium Falcon.
 * 4) The villain killing the hero's mentor.
 * 5) The planet-destroying base being the subject of a space battle, and being destroyed by X-Wings.
 * 6) On that subject, the need to re-establish the status quo makes everything the characters of the Original Trilogy struggled for moot:
 * 7) Han's back to smuggling, having broken up with Leia, undoing his character development in the process.
 * 8) Everything Luke tried to do after Return of the Jedi failed, and now he's in hiding having achieved nothing at all.
 * 9) The Galactic Republic, the free state that these characters fought so hard to establish, is nonexistent.
 * 10) Rey is a weak, overpowered protagonist who pulls abilities out of nowhere as the plot requires. Some examples include:
 * 11) * Despite growing up as a loner in a desolate planet, she speaks Droid and Wookiee, two languages implied to be rare, and gained survival skills sufficient to live in a harsh desert.
 * 12) * She can defeat a group of people physically larger than her with only a staff.
 * 13) * She can outfly three fighters with professional pilots in an old cargo hauler she's never flown before and kill one of them with a jammed gun.
 * 14) * She knows the internals of the Falcon better than Han, a man who owned it for decades, does.
 * 15) * Han, who's normally stand-offish and sarcastic, instantly takes a shine to her.
 * 16) * Firing a pistol one-handed, she gets a hit before a professional soldier with a rifle does, minutes after a scene that implies she's never even held a blaster before.
 * 17) * She exhibits Force powers with no training to the point she can overpower one of the strongest Dark Side Force users ever seen in the franchise, and learns the Jedi mind trick simply through it being used on her a few minutes before.
 * 18) * She defeats one of the most powerful Dark Side Force users in the series the first time she ever picks up a lightsaber. The ground literally has to split apart to stop her from killing Kylo there and then.
 * 19) * Leia consoles her over the loss of Han, a man Rey didn't know that long, over Chewbacca, who had been friends with Han for decades.
 * 20) The film lacks a sense of scale: a huge number of events are the result of characters simply bumping into one another. Even the action sequences aren't immune from this, with a Star Destroyer only being able to deploy three TIE fighters to go after Rey.
 * 21) The Millennium Falcon hyperspace jumping inside Starkiller Base's shields created such an obvious contradiction (in that if this were possible, most of the events of Return of the Jedi would be pointless) that external material had to be written to explain that Starkiller Base had a one-off special shield which would be uniquely vulnerable to this.
 * 22) The story isn’t really interesting, especially compared to the plots of the Original Trilogy and sometimes even the Prequel Trilogy.
 * 23) Some clichés, like "the villain killing the hero's mentor", that have been used better in other films.
 * 24) Mediocre acting for the new characters. In particular, Daisy Ridley's acting is poor, as she just widely opens her eyes or stands around with her mouth open to express every type of emotion.
 * 25) Kylo Ren is very inconsistently portrayed; on one hand being a Dark Side Force user so powerful and disciplined that he can freeze a blaster bolt in mid-air for several minutes without any apparent effort and strong enough that he could defeat Luke Skywalker and his apprentices in combat, while on the other hand he is shown as unstable, undisciplined and able to be Force-overpowered.
 * 26) Finn is also inconsistently portrayed; he is so crushed by a fellow Stormtrooper dying that he refuses an order to kill, and is next seen gunning down dozens of his fellow Stormtroopers in a docking bay. The reveal that he was a space janitor also makes no sense given that he was first seen as part of an assault team. His latching on to Rey also seems very forced, particularly given she spends most of her time mistreating him.
 * 27) Captain Phasma is completely wasted: she's only in a couple of scenes, and then is implied to have been thrown in a trash compactor.
 * 28) The film has multiple plot threads that were left completely unresolved; they were supposed to be filled in for future sequels but never were.
 * 29) It quickly replaces classic characters without any setup whatsoever, and sabotages them in favor of the new ones (notably, Anakin's lightsaber and the Falcon now belong to Rey).
 * 30) The movie suffers from simplistic and poor setup for plot concepts and scenes. For example, the explanation of why the First Order are suddenly so powerful is one sentence in the title crawl, which flatly declares they are now powerful.
 * 31) The viewer is expected to know everything from the extended universe, which is always a very questionable practice for movies.
 * 32) The film uses a rather washed-out "gritty" color palette template typically seen in war films, instead of using bright colors like the previous films. This makes the movie look rather faded and dull.
 * 33) Characters simply appear where the plot has decided they ought to be. Major examples include:
 * 34) Phazma suddenly being at the opposite end of a hangar bay after the Hyperspace ramming;
 * 35) BB-8 appearing inside an AT-ST.
 * 36) Rey getting from Snoke's throne room to his escape craft to the Falcon off-screen in a manner that is never made clear.
 * 37) Rose, BB-8 and Finn going to a First Order shuttle which then appears at the door of the Rebel base right as it is closing, even though none of these characters should know where the base actually is.
 * 38) Rose's ship suddenly being right next to Finn's even though an overhead shot clearly showed Finn's was the only ship going in that direction.
 * 39) Plot points of the previous film are very overlooked, like Snoke becoming a secondary antagonist. Rey's parents and Kylo Ren's training are now suddenly unimportant and the Knights of Ren are only mentioned by Luke. A major flaw is Finn who now knows how to fly spaceships, despite it being a major plot point that he did not know how to do so in the previous film and no time having elapsed for him to learn. Captain Phasma also returns without any explanation for how she survived being thrown in a trash compactor on a planet that was destroyed and the fact she disabled Starkiller Base's shields is never brought up.
 * 40) Constant clunky attempts at humor that are badly placed (usually disrupting tense action scenes). For example, the first scene is an extended setup to a bad "yo momma" joke, delivered to a character who is supposed to be powerful and threatening.
 * 41) Similar to the previous film, it lacks a sense of scale: the paramilitary funded by a galactic Republic has only one base with only a few ships. The setup of the midsection of the film also only works if every ship in the First Order is chasing every ship in the Resistance since otherwise one or both sides could summon more ships to assist them. As before, the only real attempt to compensate is to make individual things bigger, so the First Order has Star Destroyers and AT-ATs of extremely large size.
 * 42) The film has internal contradictions:
 * 43) A central theme of the movie is "letting the past die" by allowing both Jedi and Sith to go extinct, but at the end the movie completely contradicts that because it claims that "the Jedi will live on".
 * 44) Rey is from a desert planet and so has never seen water before, but later she knows how to swim.
 * 45) Finn goes from thinking hyperspace tracking is impossible to claiming he mopped the breaker room for the tracker on the Supremacy (despite being stationed on Starkiller Base) in the space of one scene.
 * 46) Rose preventing Finn from sacrificing himself contradicts her own motivations: her sister laid down her life to protect the Resistance, while Rose risks her life to destroy it.
 * 47) Poor grasp of the Star Wars lore, technology and sci-fi space physics in general.
 * 48) Ships lack shields (the Dreadnought in the initial battle in particular);
 * 49) Doors open into space without sucking people out, damaged vessels "sink" as if they're naval ships, freefalling bombs are used by space bombers, the Supremacy is armed with space howitzers firing shots that visibly arc, and weapons behaving as though they are subject to air resistance.
 * 50) The golden dice, which were just a background prop in mh:greatestmovies:A New Hope and disappear after the Falcon’s takeoff, are now suddenly important.
 * 51) Admiral Holdo sacrifices herself to split the Supremacy into half by hyperspace-ramming into it but this creates plot holes in the saga since a kamikaze attack of this type, which was technically already possible in the previous movies, makes Death Stars extremely vulnerable and easy to destroy.
 * 52) Force Ghosts can now call down lightning to blow things up in the real world.
 * 53) Battles scenes are very simplistic and seem "turn-based", with only one side doing something at a time. This leads to awkward scenes such as the giant AT-ATs just sitting there while Finn flees across about a mile of open ground carrying an unconscious Rose.
 * 54) As with the previous film, poor acting by Daisy Ridley, who just widely opens her eyes or stands around with her mouth open to express every type of emotion.
 * 55) Luke Skywalker's reaction after knowing about his friend Han Solo's death was filmed, but has been poorly edited out of the movie and the scene just ends after Luke asks about him.
 * 56) There are several problems with the characters:
 * 57) Rey is still a dull, aimless and overpowered protagonist who pulls abilities out of nowhere as the plot requires, like suddenly knowing the Force after roughly half of one lesson from Luke. She also continues to be shilled for by the narrative: for example, Luke claims her power frightens him, despite the fact that he has been in the presence of his own father and the Emperor, and even Yoda talks about how awesome she is. Not only that, she also doesn't seem to care about Finn for almost the whole movie as if he never existed and even defeats Luke and lectures him for being a coward.
 * 58) Luke Skywalker is given a very questionable characterization throughout the movie, as he is now a terrified and cowardly man committed to dying alone wallowing in regret after a failed attempt at cold-blooded murder, instead of being an optimistic hero who refuses to give up.
 * 59) Supreme Leader Snoke isn't a threatening villain but turns out to be just a regular-sized and weak-looking alien humanoid.
 * 60) Leia can now use the Force to fly through space and her scene felt like a deus ex machina; the fact that Leia is also Force-sensitive (especially in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) completely undermines the entire quest to find Luke in The Force Awakens, given that nobody in the Resistance ever thought about needing Leia as the Force-user they've been wanting to help take down the First Order and not Luke.
 * 61) Admiral Holdo is a very flat character and her feud with Poe is pointless given that she could just tell everyone what her plan was, given the clear crisis of morale on her ship. Also, his costume design (she has pink hair and a ballgown) is very odd, given that she's supposed to be a military officer. She also sits around doing nothing on her cruiser's bridge while the First Order destroys most of the remainder of the Resistance.
 * 62) BB-9E is supposed to be a threatening villain despite its obvious harmless appearance since it basically is just a black-plated BB-8.
 * 63) Chewbacca is very underused except for joke interactions with the Porgs and taking Rey to places. He is also not shown to be grieving for the loss of his lifelong friend Han Solo.
 * 64) Captain Phasma is wasted again, as she fails to execute Finn and Rose, loses a fight with Finn and dies again.
 * 65) Yoda is given a rather goofy characterization, similar to when he first met Luke on Dagobah in mh:greatestmovies:The Empire Strikes Back when he acted like this to test Luke's patience before turning to his stoic and wise usual characterization; only there is no reason for him to act like this in this movie.
 * 66) The film continues The Force Awakens' tendency to quickly replace classic characters with new ones without proper setup to the changes: the Falcon is now Rey's ship, and Luke is given a new characterization so that she can easily be better than him. Admiral Ackbar is pointlessly killed after he's spent a few seconds on-screen, and is replaced with a new Admiral character.
 * 67) Scenes and plot points are severely affected by bad writing:
 * 68) The script severely re-uses the idea of a character being stunned before scenes change. Poe, Finn, Kylo, Leia, and Rose are all knocked unconscious before the scene can move to another location.
 * 69) Kylo goes from wanting to create something different from both the Resistance and the First Order to just deciding to be in charge of the First Order without a clear reason.
 * 70) At one point Finn and Rose get arrested for a parking violation, which is too mundane for a Star Wars movie.
 * 71) About two-thirds of the way through the movie, the script has several scenes where it forgets the Resistance are not called the Rebels.
 * 72) Kylo's offer to Rey recycles Vader's "join me" speech from Empire Strikes Back.
 * 73) The Canto Bight subplot has lot of filler, with Finn taking the time to run around the casino wide-eyed and wanting to have some fun gambling and Rose spending multiple scenes worried about capitalism and animal cruelty despite they are on an urgent mission to save their friends. This subplot is also never brought up again.
 * 74) The entire middle of the movie is Holdo's plan to go to a planet (which they can do, despite the chase) to find a codebreaker to get onto the Supremacy in order to get into a breaker room to switch off a breaker to disable a tracker so that the Resistance fleet can jump to Hyperspace which is very convoluted and useless since the Resistance never needed the tracker to be off anyway.
 * 75) Luke's death at the end was underwhelming, as he consumes all of his life-force by projecting an image of himself across the galaxy just to distract Kylo Ren and the First Order.
 * 76) The ending sequence is very contradictory with the protagonists cheering, which feels very forced due to the death of Luke Skywalker and the Resistance being decimated.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Breathtaking visual effects; criticisms about the Prequels' overuse of CGI were listened to, and the film has far more scenes using physical sets and practical effects, combined with some CGI. It also has much clearer visuals, without the excessively cluttered scenes of the Prequels.
 * 2) *The imagery of the "boneyards" of Jakku with wrecked Imperial and Rebel equipment looming over barren deserts is very striking.
 * 3) *The chase through the wreckage of a downed Super Star Destroyer is both a breathtaking visual and an inventive use of the series' classic imagery.
 * 4) BB-8 is a really cute character.
 * 5) Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher give great performances, as do Adam Driver and Andy Serkis.
 * 6) Snoke is a menacing and memorable villain.
 * 7) The scene where Rey meets Luke Skywalker in a kind look is pretty nice.
 * 8) "Hey! That's mine!"
 * 9) The scene where Chewie is trying to put the moves on a female Resistance doctor and it seems to be working is legitimately charming.
 * 10) Epic action scenes that were well-directed and effective, with some very memorable scenes, such as the duel with Kylo Ren.
 * 11) The scene of Holdo's Hyperspace suicide-ramming is stunningly executed.
 * 12) The Yoda puppet is an amazing replica of the original puppet used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The original molds and the original painter for Yoda's eyes were even used.
 * 13) The sound design is excellent, and most tracks from John Williams' score deliver the precise mood and tone they are supposed to.
 * 14) Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Andy Serkis are clearly doing a good job with the material they're given, and of the younger cast Adam Driver in particular also puts in a great performance.
 * 15) The scene where Luke speaks to R2-D2 aboard the Falcon gives the viewer a moment where he has proper characterization. The scene is also pitch-perfect and genuinely touching.
 * 16) The scene of Finn accepting that he's now fighting for something bigger than himself as he heads towards the giant laser cannon is extremely well handled.
 * 17) Since the film focuses less on Rey than the previous one, there are far fewer scenes showcasing her character being flawless.
 * 18) The battle scenes are essentially well-shot.
 * 19) The Porgs are admittedly very cute to look at.
 * 20) There are some references to the three films in the prequel trilogy, like when Luke mentions how the Jedi fell and how Darth Sidious formed the Empire.