I am the best wife ever. I won the wife points this year for getting the beloved tickets for The Last Jedi for Christmas. I won extra points for getting 3D Imax Odeon gallery seats, too. Oh yes, I know how to do this.
To be clear we are both massive Star Wars fans so this was hardly a sacrifice on my part. If anything I was too invested. I did not want to go in case it was rubbish. I did not want this to be rubbish. This was Carrie Fisher’s swan song, they better not balls it up.
They didn’t balls it up. It picks up exactly where The Force Awakens finished. Rey is trying to break the ice with Luke Skywalker and the Resistance are getting their backside gift wrapped and handed to them by the First Order. This is the story of the internal struggle with who you are, doing what is right and seeing the bigger picture.
I don’t do spoilers but I found it tense. The battle scenes caused me to cling to the arms of the seat. It toys with you. This is a film that is confident in its storytelling and its audience, which is refreshing in big budget films.
My one word of warning, if you are a fan: the filmmakers are emotionally manipulative gits. Gits I say! If you love these movies there are moments that will give you the warm and fuzzies and others that will break you down. These are tiny love songs to Star Wars and they are beautiful.
Go, lose yourself in a galaxy far, far away but take a hanky.