The Clash Between Forces

With blockbusters there is always a divide between critics and the audience. But with this blockbuster the difference between the critics and the audience is like the light and dark side. While the critics find the movie outstanding, funny, and fitting, the audience finds the movie to be a disappointment, fluffy, and lackluster.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi starts where it was left off in The Force Awakens. The director of “The Last Jedi,” Rian Johnson, takes on the responsibly of creating and producing this film.

Mr. Johnson seems to fall short when it came to proceeding with the story from The Force Awakens. To wrap around the bases of the story there are two side prevalent in the movie. The heroes, who are trying to save the universe (The Resistance) and the villains, who are trying to control the universe (The First Order). The audience is left with a lot of shrugging and wondering. Snok was briefly introduced to us in The Force Awaken with no clue who he was or how he came to power. People were hoping to find an answer to their questions in The Last Jedi, but they were left clueless. We still do not know anything about Snok. How did he manage to become the leader of the First Order? Where did he come from?

On top of falling short, the audience found this movie to be very fluffy. Mr. Johnson managed to take very serious situations and managed to dissolve the tension with a joke. While critics found this amusing and a smart choice by Johnson, the fans and audience found this distasteful. The Star Wars series has always been seen as a serious series and The Last Jedi manages to break this pattern. This break in pattern may seem pleasing to critics, but fan and audiences saw this as the movies downfall.

The big blockbuster, The Last Jedi had a huge divide between the critics and audiences. While critics found the movie to be tasteful and joyful, fans and audiences found the movie to be lackluster and disappointing. The Last Jedi lacks in story building and progress, while making the movie fluffy. In conclusion, The Last Jedi may be a decent watch, but it certainly doesn't measure up to it's iconic predecessors.