It's like drinking dull dishwater

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2018)

I was 5 years old when I first saw the original Star Wars in the theaters in 1977 and have been a fan ever since. I loved the originals and the prequels. I thought Rogue One was great. I thought The Force Awakens had enough promise when I first saw it.
Then The Last Jedi came out. I never thought that I'd ever say this about a Star Wars movie, but wow, everything about this movie was dull, dull, dull! Usually, a second installment in a trilogy (such as Empire Strikes Back) gets me hyped to see the third installment. On the contrary, The Last Jedi has pretty much neutered my interest in Episode IX, and the further adventures of Rey, Finn, Kylo and company.
It took most of the interesting plot points played up in The Force Awakens (Rey's parentage, Snoke, etc.) and either ignored them or gave them the least interesting answer possible.
It rendered the villains into incompetent jokes, like they came right out of Spaceballs. Whereas the villains in the first two trilogies (Vader, Tarkin, Maul, Palpatine, Dooku) were fearsome, one doesn't get a sense of threat from the First Order gang. General Hux showed promise in TFA, but gets the rug thrown out from under him by the awful script that makes him the butt of many jokes. Captain Phasma shows up for only a few minutes (as in TFA) and gets quickly dispatched - yawn!! Kylo Ren's tantrums get old pretty fast.
The Leia flying through space scene - quite possibly one of the dumbest scenes I've ever seen in any movie.
Rose Tico - An annoying character. She is nothing but a constant nag to Finn, and then near the end prevents him from making a sacrifice that would have saved the Resistance. Shortly thereafter, she gives one of the most nonsensical quotes I have ever heard.
Holdo - Uh....lol, the less said the better.
Luke Skywalker - all of the scenes between him and Rey were just dreary and a chore to watch. The scene with the chorus line of Reys snapping their fingers was laughable. The reveal at the end where Luke was force projecting from another planet, felt like it came out of far left field (None of the previous SW movies ever established that a living (not a Force Ghost) Jedi could project themselves elsewhere, so the scene felt quite contrived. Note to Rian Johnson: if you're going to use a previously unknown/unintroduced power at a critical point in a story, you might want to consider introducing it at an earlier point in the story so it makes more sense when it appears in the climax.)
Good points of the movie: um.......uh.....well, the popcorn was very good!