Star Wars: The Last Jedi

"Let the past die."

2017 2h 32m EN

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 16,755

AdventureActionScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.

“Let the past die.”

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Cast

Mark Hamill
Luke Skywalker / Dobbu Scay (voice)
Carrie Fisher
Leia Organa
Adam Driver
Kylo Ren
Daisy Ridley
Rey
John Boyega
Finn
Oscar Isaac
Poe Dameron
Andy Serkis
Snoke
Lupita Nyong'o
Maz Kanata

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Rian Johnson
Writers: Rian Johnson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 152 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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MONEY

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Budget of $300M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.

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ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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CAST

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Part of the "Star Wars Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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315+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Rian Johnson, shot by Steve Yedlin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Rian Johnson directs. Steve Yedlin behind the camera. John Williams scores. Bob Ducsay cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Clocks in at 152 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Budget of $300M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.
3Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.
4Released 9 years ago.
5Part of the "Star Wars Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6315+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Rian Johnson, shot by Steve Yedlin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Bob Ducsay shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher and Adam Driver carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Let the past die.".
12IMDB entry: tt2527336 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1316,755 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 9 themes, including "bunker", "space battle", "defeat", "failure".
15Released under 61 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Steve Yedlin
Original score: John Williams
Editing: Bob Ducsay
Production design: Rick Heinrichs
Costume design: Michael Kaplan
Makeup / hair: Flora Moody
VFX supervisor: Mike Mulholland
Sound: Ren Klyce
Stunt coordinator: Liang Yang
Runtime: 152 min · 2h 32m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $300,000,000
Box office: $1,334,407,706
Return: 445% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Awards

Empire Award for Best Film
Empire Award for Best Director
Saturn Award for Best Actor
Saturn Award for Best Writing
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Saturn Award for Best Editing
Empire Award for Best Actress

Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.

Part of

Star Wars Collection

An epic space-opera theatrical film series, which depicts the adventures of various characters "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…."

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Weedinator2017-12-22
I got so high before going in to see "The Last Jedi" it's a wonder I figured out how to get into the theater. We started rocking the shatter bong hardcore, just pump it, pump it, till you can actually feel your brain melting, then hit that nail and do it again and again. At some point somebody asked the question "where are we?" and while I was reflecting philosophically on the matter, somebody else pointed out that we were parked in a lot by the cineplex and we slowly realized that we were here to see 'The Last Jedi'! I could barely function at all, so I went to my old go-to routine of donning dark glasses and a white cane to help disguise my complete stonification by pretending I was just some poor blind guy stumbling around and knocking things over. I usually do this to get past security at rock concerts and it never crossed my mind that a blind guy wouldn't be able to see a movie in the first place, but it worked anyway and soon enough we were in our seats. There were these fucking kids sitting right behind us and they kept kicking my seat like little retards, kicking, kicking, kicking.... so I took the lid off my extra-large Coke and just tossed it over my shoulder. Bingo! Direct hit! The little creeps shuffled off all pissed and whining, covered in sticky cola, us laughing at them, calling them losers, it was great! Then the movie started. The sound was awesome and everything but the screen was pretty freakin' dark I thought, could hardly make out anything. I started chanting "Turn up the brightness! Turn up the brightness!", expecting the rest of the audience to join in to my righteous chant of outrage, but then I realized I still had my Blind Guy Glasses on. Took 'em off and yup, cleared right up. There was some kind of big space battle going on so we took out our vape pens and started hoofing back lungfuls of sweet sweet shatter vapor. My girlfriend started texting me, bitching at me to pick her up some vag pads on the way home. WTF?? Get up off your fat ass and get 'em yourself I texted back. A barrage of bitchtexts followed, I was a jerk, I was an asshole and bla bla bla... I took a picture of my bare ass and sent it to her as a reply, fuckin bitch, anyway, apparently, this was considered 'indecent exposure' according to the usher-dork who wouldn't shut up about it so we had to leave the movie. We saw those stupid kids in the lobby as we were being escorted out, laughing at US, calling US 'losers'... I wanted to get back at them when they came out, even formed this elaborate plan where we would swoop down on them and soak them with freezing water this time, but we ended up just getting high again then went to Burger King.
Dark Jedi2017-12-27
★ 10/10
My oldest son, as well as myself of course, wanted to watch this movie already before Christmas when it went up Geneva but it was pretty much sold out (unless you wanted to sit at the very edge of the theatre). I manage to book tickets for yesterday though so…here’s my ramblings about the movie. As usual with these kind of movies, where there is a large following of fans, there is also many dissenting voices. Some people apparently are going as far as to want this movie to be undone. Well, my take on that is that these people need to grow up or let go or both. Luke is no longer a young farm boy running around saving the universe. The Star Wars universe and its characters are evolving and that is the way it should be and the way it is. Time for the next generation to pick up the torch. Both me and my son really liked this movie. After the abysmal episodes I to III (Jar Jar Binks still haunts me in my dreams) I have really enjoyed the Star Wars movies. I quite liked The Force Awakens but it is true that it felt a bit like a rehash of A New Hope. Not only does this one not feel like it is reusing old material (too much) but it also feels like it is opening a new chapter in the Star Wars universe. The FX is as good as you have the right to expect from a Star Wars movie. The story is fresh and well developed. It will not win any Oscars of course but I liked it. It makes things evolve while at the same time giving enough room for action and a wee bit of humor. The characters are almost all good and well played. I am looking forward to seeing more of most of them, especially, Rey and Poe. I’m not 100% convinced about Finn and Rose but I can live with them. Kylo Ren do not yet fill up the shoes of Darth Vader but he is showing promise. Contrary to Snoke I do feel he should put on a mask though. The two characters I did not really like was General Hux and DJ. The first one was just incompetent. I’m not sure if he was supposed to be a bit of comical relief or not but, as far as I am concerned, we can do without him. DJ, well I guess he was supposed to not be liked so he did a good job of that but these kinds of assholes just frustrate me to no end. We never saw him actually meet his demise in this movie so if he is brought back I hope it will be for the sole purpose of rectifying that oversight…as violently and painfully as possible. Of course, we saw a few new ships as well and as usual with the Empire bigger is better…or maybe not. Not sure what to say about these new designs. At least they did not look like a enlarged (except for the bridge) Star Destroyer like Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer. One thing that really bugged me in the first battle though was the rebels’ so called “bombers”. What kind of bloody moron designed those? They were just so wrong in so many ways. The design itself was just silly looking. They were slower than a flee on a patch of tar. Seriously, a space bomber that crawls along? Actually, why make a “bomber” in space at all? That brings us to the biggest gripe of them all with this ludicrous design…dropping bombs vertically? In space? How the fuck do they fall? Sure they looked somewhat cool when they dropped their bombs…if your knowledge of physics is on the level of your average politician (and obviously a few Hollywood employees as well). Anyway, on the whole me and my son had two and a half hours of great fun watching The Last Jedi. I hope the next movie expands on the threads this one started. I have to say that I was a bit sorry about the feeble state of the resistance at the end, so I do hope the next writer will not let this drag on. One way to ruin Star Wars for me would be to turn Star Wars into some Battlestar Galactica variant with resistance survivors on constant run from the empire. Now it is time for the resistance to strike back, and for Rey to evolve her Jedi powers.
Gimly2017-12-29
★ 5/10
There is so much to love about The Last Jedi. I was very entertained watching this 8th Star Wars saga film, I'll see it again, there's some truly beautiful scenes, all that jazz. But I am not fully on board with The Last Jedi. The film is a fun watch, and if you were to take it as a whole, then place it in a bubble, it's a pretty good movie too, but a lot about it is... Pointless. I'm not saying the movie was pointless, it has a lot to offer, and deserves its place as Episode VIII, but there are moments started within The Last Jedi that end up being pointless by the time the credits roll, and more than that, it goes back to ideas from the Star Wars saga as a whole, and makes them pointless too. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.