After awaking from his coma, Finn (John Boyega) contrives a means by which he can disable the New Order's tracking device, albeit requiring him to leave the fleeing Rebel vessel, travel to a Monaco-styled casino planet, track down a master codebreaker, bring that codebreaker back to space AND infiltrate the enemy's ship undetected. Ingenious in its own right, this setup, however, then gives rise to the film's most pointless subplot. Unable to escape without detection and with only shallow reserves of fuel remaining until the New Order catches them, the depleted Rebel fleet limps through space like the Orca from Jaws - a hapless, crumbling ship pursued by a killer whose only remaining hurdle is time.
It is as dramatic an opening to a Star Wars film as any before it, delivering an exhilarating and poignant battle that also introduces a spectacularly menacing new class of space ship known as the 'Dreadnaught', pits ace pilot Poe (Oscar Isaacs) against his superiors and sets in motion an innovative countdown after which the Rebellion will exist no more. It picks up almost immediately where The Force Awakens left off, with the orphaned heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) attempting to lure the only remaining Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), out of self-imposed exile while the last remnants of the Rebellion flee a resurgent New Order.
With its sumptuous colour palette, interwoven plot lines and unexpected humour, writer/director Rian Johnson (Looper) has assuredly marked Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi as his own a Star Wars film at once deeply familiar and unique.
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