Spoiler warning: There are some cheerful echoes of the jaunty tone of the original Star Wars movies in the third and final film of the new trilogy
And he’s pretty right. There is an eerie sense of reality to a role enhanced by memories of the young Leia with her snail-bun hairstyle and her gift for the smart remark. But it’s an understandably one-note appearance, limited to supplying soothing words of encouragement to the film’s young stars.
The script works very hard at connecting them and their adventures with seminal events from the past to bring the story full circle. Ghostly visions abound and their voices are continually coming up with advice, portents and warnings. The conflicted relationship between Daisy Ridley’s Rey, the inheritor of the Jedi warrior tradition, and her nemesis, Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, Leia’s sinister son, is one of the most sophisticated twists in the saga’s convoluted genealogy and it takes some satisfyingly ingenious turns, although its final moments may leave you wondering.You might also argue that a franchise that has outlived one of its stars should have said goodbye long ago but the saga’s box-office figures say otherwise.
As to whether it does, only the most pedantic should complain. It’s a rousing finish to a series that has accompanied so many people throughout their childhood.
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