Identity politics saps the joy out of all it touches.

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2018)

Hopefully the amount of negative reviews serve as a wake up call for Disney and Lucasfilm.
There's not much I can say that other reviewers have not already said, and I'm not some old school crazy fanboy. However, I do know the Star Wars franchise well enough to see that this was a bad movie. For example, what's with Yoda (a force ghost) calling down lightning in the real world? What's with Leia (who has limited force powers) surviving in the vacuum of space and then force pulling herself back to the ship? There are just so many little things that were wrong in addition to the plot.
But the straw that broke the camels back for me was how they purposefully made Luke to be this bitter old man, and finally killed him off. They gave him one last purpose, helping his friends, so that now they can focus on the franchises new direction of "forced" identity politics. This is the point it all became clear; Star Wars is in fact being moved towards a younger "progressive" audience that must be indoctrinated with social justice. But why? We get that in every other part of lives, so why was it so important to do it with Star Wars?
They had a perfect opportunity to carry on Luke's legacy now that he has been through so much and become this ultimate Jedi master. They had a perfect opportunity to share the story of Snoke. They had a perfect opportunity to expand on Rey and her backstory and training with Luke. Nut no, even though this was a far away galaxy long long ago, it's more important to push the political agendas of our current day.
It's also worth noting that my initial review was rejected because I pointed out the SJW biases in The Last Jedi with too much sarcasm. Both Rian Johnson (writer & director) and Kathleen Kennedy (President of Lucasfilm) have openly admitted to this, so why exactly are the mods of IMDb afraid and choosing to censor opposing views?