If only Last Jedi didn't blow everything

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2019)

Yeah, I know that this movie is not for everybody's taste. Following a mess that was TLJ, this movie had lots of recovery and character development that needed to be done. In my opinion JJ Abrams did a great job to accomplish this goal and try to lead the movie into a climax. I'm not a great writer so I'll just try to list the things I liked, felt flat and some of the missed opportunities
Things I liked:
-Character development of Ben, Finn and somewhat Rey but this will inevitably fail because she was already op beginning of the movie
-Acting

Star Wars feel was there. Star wars for me always meant cheesy scenes, feeling the force and the marvelous story of achieving the impossible like in David and Goliath.
I'm not even sure you need to read about the music. It is one of the aspects that makes the Star Wars what it is.

-Fan service. This included many of the references and sometimes even retakes from the older movies. It took me back in time and I felt similar to how I felt when I watched Star Wars as a child.

Old characters utilization. Even C-3PO, which i wasn't really a fan of through the films , had its funny moments. I normally don't feel so emotional during films, but the scene where we saw Leia pass away, I felt how lucky I was to see an actor like Carrie Fisher for one last time.

-Movie not utilizing unnecessary characters like Rose.

Connection between Kylo and Rey unless the part I'm going to mention in flat parts

Flat parts
-Palpatine's existence was like a cover up to what happened to Snoke.
-Rey's roots. Yeah she is a palpatine what a surprise. This was only done to explain her origins somehow and left more questions than answers like how did palpatine got his own children.

Hux's existence. In TFA, he was like a powerful leader doing imitating a dictator but because of the TLJ s affect on him he became a mop. Kylo didn't even let him speak with force and maybe a force choke would be a proper ending for him.

-Connection between our protagonists. We don't really know how their relationship grow and we were still expected to root for them just like we did for han leia and luke.

movie time. Because there was so much explaining to be done running time could have been longer but I still liked how story improved after two movies of nothing happening
How in the world they missed to use Ben's and Anakin's force ghost in the last scene. Like How?

-That kiss scene. Besides Anakin, there was hardly ever romance for jedis because of how they view the world. In Anakin's case, at least his affection was developed over three minutes and it made sense. Considering the godly representation of rey, this felt a little forced.
-Cover ups wasting time. Haldo move, leia s training, getting into light speed extensively and movie is full of them trying to explain stuff in the previous movie
-Hacking 3po arc

Connecting material through Force?

These were only the things I can remember on the top of my head. Movie wasn't perfect by any means but neither it should be. It represented what Star Wars was to me and I'm glad to have watched it.