Act 1:

Act 1 is all about Rey convincing Luke she's worthy of being trained and Kylo's first momentous
turnaround decision happens when he saves his mother's life above D'Qar as she's escaping. Finn
wakes up and plays gunner to Paige Tico's bomber but that's about it. It's a great action sequence.
He immediately has chemistry with Rose.

Act 2:

Act 2 is all about Rey being trained, Kylo meeting up with the KOR at Vader's castle to finally
execute his plan to overthrow Snoke (but with Rey's help), and Finn and Rose journeying to
Canto Bight to meet up with DJ who supposedly has the key to the Resistance's victory - the
location of an undiscovered droid army and factory network leftover from the prequel era. It's
made clear that the Resistance is not in a good spot at the beginning of this film, totally lacking a
war-time fleet and military. We are led to believe DJ will betray them, but it is in fact Rose that
reveals the location of Crait to the FO while on Canto Bight, because her and Paige's family are
FO hostages. When Rose turns over Finn (emotionally) to Phasma, Phasma reveals they killed
their family a long time ago, which is devastating to Rose, then they take Rose into captivity as
well.

Kylo heads to Ahch-To with the KOR to convince Rey that together they can end this destructive
conflict before it even starts (sound familiar?).

Luke dispatches the KOR (non-lethally using the Force) quite easily as Ren and Rey duel.

On the cliffface, a rock breaks and Rey falls in, gashing her head on a rock on the way down.
She'll drown.

Ren, realizing this is the moment he's seen, jumps in after her. Luke sees this.

He swims her to an underwater cavern with air, when she regains consciousness they, for hte first
time, discuss the rest of the story, how Snoke had manipulated Ben into thinking Luke and his
Jedi were the ones who killed Rey and her family after Ben had stopped receiving visions of her
after he left Jakku. Rey is uneasy still because Ren has both lightsabers. Ren says he needs to
talk to Luke now that he knows the truth and realizes the gravity of his mistake in destroying the
Jedi.

Ren hands Rey back Anakin's lightsaber, and together they set off to find Luke, but when they
returned, they find the KOR are returning to conscious but Luke is nowhere to be found. He
jacked one of the KOR's ships.

Act 3:

During Act 2 Leia and Holdo's arc was getting the base on Crait up and running again. They
discover a cache of old Rebellion gear, some of which goes back to the prequel days since the
Rebellion itself had discovered a cache of prequel stuff lol.
After Rose gives them the location of Crait, which DJ reveals to Leia happened, bot the FO and
Resistance begin preparing for a battle.

The base is underground (in that cliff area that the skimmers drop off).

Leia broadcasts to Ahch-To telling Rey that her and Luke are needed immediately at Crait, but
before Rey can respond her and Kylo are ambushed by FO ships. Kylo's TIE had a tracker.

Kylo says they will meet again at Crait and runs to his interceptor where he buys Rey time to get
to the Falcon with Chewie. She makes it off-planet and jumps to Crait, whereas Kylo Ren's ship
gets damaged above Ahch-To and he gets taken into custody by a giant FO ship with a tractor
beam. Rey senses that he's been captured.

Rey returns to Leia empty-handed, no Luke, no Kylo. But she tells Leia that Kylo saved her life
in which Leia gives her a smile that can only indicate one thing: her son has fallen in love. We
have no freaking clue where Luke is yet.

When Leia tells Rey what happened to Finn and Rose, Rey pulls an ESB Luke and darts off to
rescue them as the FO fleet appears above Crait for the final showdown. Kylo, Finn, and Rose
are all on Snoke's SSD. Hux gives the order to charge the Devastator which will completely
destroy the Resistance base below.

Rey frees Finn and Rose after fighting through the FO ship, then wants to go free Kylo. Finn is
NOT happy about this, but Rey manages to get him to reluctantly agree.

Kylo is strapped to the torture chair when they find him, Rey makes a joke about how the tables
have turned before freeing him. Before they can all leave, however, Snoke's guards rush the
room and take them captive (Kylo doesn't have his lightsaber).

They are brought before the Supreme Leader. Snoke tells Kylo he has one last chance to prove
his dedication. He can either kill Rey, Kylo, and Rose, in which case Snoke promises to reveal to
Kylo the knowledge he's been keeping from him thus far, the key to ultimate power, or he can
die with the rest of them, after watching the Devastator wipe out his mother as well. Snoke then
floats Kylo's lightsaber back to him.

The first one brought by Snoke's guards to the "chopping block" is Finn. Finn looks at him
angrily, and for a moment it looks as if Kylo will do it, but at the last minute he Force pushes
both of the guards away from Finn, then chops the restraints off of Rey, Rose, and Finn. Snoke
stands surprised with Rey's saber, and for a brief second it looks as if it will be Kylo versus
everyone alone.

But the lightsaber flies out of Snoke's grip and into the hand of Luke. Upon seeing this, Snoke
flees through a door behind the throne he was sitting in. Luke tells Rey that she's the key to
saving the galaxy, throws her the lightsaber, and flies off to pursue Snoke.
Kylo and Rey stand with their backs enclosing Rose and Finn and we get one of the most epic
fucking showdowns in Star Wars history. They hold off Snoke's guards and the FO
stormtroopers, Finn and Rose pick up weapons from dead FO troopers and join the fight later,
but the majority of the action is centered on Kylo and Rey having a samurai-type showdown with
Snoke's guards and their weird weaponry. You've never seen fighting quite like this in a SW film
before. It's somewhere in-between the OT fights and the flashiness of the PT, but with a lot of
the uniqueness of the guards' weapons thrown in.

They win the fight, escape the SSD just before it gets destroyed in the space battle, and head
back towards Crait. When Rey notices Kylo isn't with them, however, he tells her that the
Devastator is is going to destroy the base and kill his mother, and that he has to stop it

The devastator is ready to fire. There's no time. Kylo tells Rey to tell his mother he's sorry for
everything he's done. Rey pleads with him to come back (like the older version of her "come
back" screams on Jakku, she starts crying) but there simply isn't any time left.

Kylo takes his TIE, sets it to self-destruct mode, and flies it down the barrel of the Devastator's
main canon which is prepped to fire. We are led to believe that Kylo dies when his ship explodes
in the barrel, disabling the weapon and causing the built up energy of the canon to discharge into
the ship instead. The whole thing goes BOOM and we see Rey and even Finn show sadness over
Kylo's sacrifice. The one clue we have that Kylo is not dead is that Leia does not react when the
ship explodes, but cheers with everyone else on Crait.

When Rey returns in tears to Leia, telling her what happened to Kylo and Luke, Leia tells her
that she can sense the two are still alive somewhere, but that Luke is in grave danger. It cuts to
Snoke's Supremacy, where he has taken Luke captive. Snoke encircles him in a ray-shield type
device and both of them mock each other. In an echo of ROTJ, Luke tells Snoke that he's failed.
Snoke scoffs and one of my favorite lines goes something like, "Ren's one remaining weakness is
that he has yet to make things right with you. They will come searching. But will they be ready
for what they find?" Luke reacts with a very ominous face.

The film ends with Rey setting off in the Falcon to look for Kylo, and the closing shot is from
within the cockpit as Kylo's ejected TIE seat floats in space in front of the window, with an
unconscious Kylo strapped into it (tie pilot helmet on). Rey frantically scans to see if he's still
alive, which Chewie confirms he is.

The closing line is Rey looking out of the window and saying, "Ben." Iris out on her face, roll
credits.