20 Best Movies Moments Of 2017
13. Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Holdo’s Heroic Hyperspace Sacrifice
Ships jumping into hyperspace and hurtling past blurred
stars at warp speed has been a Star Wars tradition since the franchise’s
inception. But it wasn’t until The Last Jedi that we saw hyperspace weaponised
in a breath-taking moment in which Laura Dern’s Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo
sacrificed herself by launching her ship at light speed into the First Order
fleet so her fellow Resistance fighters could escape to safety.
It’s a spectacularly shot scene that cleverly cuts out all sound as Holdo’s ship slices through the Supremacy’s wing in a flash of light and debris and allows us to revel in both the emotion of Holdo’s heroic sacrifice and the pure drama of the scene’s magnificent visuals.
Not to mention it answers a question that’s not doubt danced through the mind of many a Star Wars fan – what would it look like if one spaceship hyper-spaced into another? Well, now we know: it looks bloody amazing.