With just days before fans can finally see a new Star Wars movie, the reviews are in. Critics are sharing their thoughts about Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the results are very encouraging.Thus far, the newest installment in the Star Wars saga has a score of 86 on Metacritic. For those keeping track, that`s the highest score on the site for any Star Wars movie since 1977`s Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, which is rated at a 92.However, while the reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi are overwhelmingly positive, that doesn`t mean the movie is without its flaws. Still, it charts new territory in this 40-year-old universe. `If 2015`s The Force Awakens bent over backward to be like the original movies, The Last Jedi does the same to buck your expectations,` GameSpot`s Michael Rougeau says in our The Last Jedi review.Rougeau continues, `There are genuinely shocking moments in this movie. Characters you thought were good have a dark side. Those who should be wise act foolishly, and a single decent act doesn`t suddenly make a bad guy good. If you think you know which way this thing will go purely on a narrative level, you`re probably wrong. For a Star Wars movie, that unpredictability is refreshing.`And yet, GameSpot`s review, along with several others, point out how slow and plodding the middle of the movie can be. `The film simply drags too much in the middle,` Entertainment Weekly`s Chris Nashawaty says. `Somewhere in the film`s 152-minute running time is an amazing 90-minute movie.`One portion of the movie that sticks out is a sequence set on the casino planet Canto Bight. `The sequence looks like something out of the Star Wars prequels, which isn`t necessarily an insult as the prequels had an exceptional design, it`s just a very different aesthetic from the original trilogy palette,` SlashFilm`s Peter Sciretta explains. `I suspect the design alone will result in a divisive response, but the story on this planet is probably my least favorite aspect of the film.` ...
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