This Is NOT the Star Wars movie that you are looking for!

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2018)

First I want say I am a HUGE, HUGE Star Wars fan and I love all the Star Wars movies (originals and prequels) and the television shows as well. I grew up with original Star Wars trilogy and saw them in the theatre as a child and then took my family to the prequels when they came out, so writing this review pains me. Unfortunately The Last Jedi (TLJ) is a MASSIVE FAILURE and I would take The Phantom Menace any day over this tragedy. At least The Phantom Menace had a original, coherent story and exciting new characters (Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, Qui Gon Jinn and Padme) and at least the prequels felt a part of something larger. I also had some issues with The Force Awakens, mainly the Episode 4 storyline retread and Rey's ability to the force with no training, but overall it was a decent movie. The Last Jedi destroyed pretty much everything J.J. Abrams set up in TFA and takes a big crap on the other seven movies.
I guess the creators (Rian Johnson, Disney) of this movie just don't get what the main Star Wars saga is about. It is about the Skywalker lineage and family as George Lucas had previously stated. The creators of The Last Jedi go out of their way and destroy the saga intentionally with the choices they made. Rian Johnson recently was quoted saying he didn't create the movie for the fans. Well the fans didn't want him to make a movie for the fans, but to just stick to lore, write believable character's storylines not destroy them (Luke's) and write a entertaining story not another retread (Episode V) full of plot holes.
The first major problem with this movie is the main storyline which involves the First Order chasing the Resistance through space until their ships run out of fuel because the First Order can track the Resistance through hyperspace so they can't jump to hyperspace to get away. This is just stupid because the writers are treating space like the ships are on the ocean or vehicles on the road, but this is space and at anytime the First Order could just send part of their fleet ahead through hyperspace and turn around and then jump again ahead of the Resistance and destroy them or they could have just used the thousand of Tie Fighters they have an destroy them this way, when by the way three tie fighters had done plenty of damage destroying the main ship's bridge and hanger earlier.
The next major issue with TLJ they ruined the Luke Skywalker character. Luke Skywalker was my favorite character from the original trilogy. He was a true hero and a true character of the light, but they ruined this in TLJ by making him a much darker character, which I don't agree with at all. Luke who saw in his father that there was still good in him takes a major risk by confronting him and ends up turning Anakin back to lightside. But in TLJ Luke see darkness growing in his nephew and contemplates murdering him? Are you kidding me? No that is not Luke he is an optimistic character and he would of tried to make sure Ben didn't turn to the darkside. In the TLJ they also portrait Luke as coward, who wants to die, and end the Jedi order, but leaves a map to himself for someone to find him? Which again I don't agree with and neither does Mark Hamill who had a major issue how Rian Johnson wrote Luke's storyline. There was so much wrong with what they did to Luke in this movie from Luke drinking milk from some alien cow breast to catching fish with a giant pole both which were completely silly, but they kill him off in the worst way, he just fades away after projecting himself as a illusion across the galaxy. WHAT? What did use too much of the force? There is no such thing. What a total load of BS.
Then there's Leia' s Mary Poppins moment which was completely ridiculous. Princess Leia is on the bridge of her ship when the bridge destroyed by the a pair of Tie Fighters and her body is sucked into space. Then we see her lifeless body floating space and her character gets a great death scene, but no. She a human not a demigod or Superman awakens and then she reaches out her hand she uses the force to pull her self back to the destroyed bridge, come to the door where there is hall full of people watching, proceeds to open the door where the hall DOESN"T decompress and suck everyone into space and then collapses and falls into a coma. TOTAL BS! Leia should be dead. If the the concussion from the explosion didn't kill her then being in space in absolute zero would certainly kill her and she would have died from violent decompression, expanding of her body, boiling of her blood and then her body being frozen like a cube of ice.
There are plenty of other issues with this movie.

The Rose character or should I say the new Jar Jar Binks. She is a complete waste of space and useless to the plot.
Finn's side story to Canto Bight with Rose when it would have made way more sense to have been with Finn and Poe since they set up this friendship in the TFA.
Again the lack of Captain Phasma the most over hyped Star Wars character in the history of the franchise gets 5 minute of screen time and then gets killed off. We see more of her in the trailers than in the movie.
Useless marketable cute characters (Porgs, Crystal Foxes).
They throw around the Force like it's nothing. One the things that made the force users (Jedi, Sith) interesting is that they had limits, they were vulnerable and had to go through training. In this movie they are treated almost like Demi gods.
The Mary Sue Rey is treated like she is a Jedi after having little to no training. In this movie and TFA she used a Jedi mind trick, beaten Kylo Ren in a lightsaber duel, bested Luke in a fight and lifted a huge pile of rocks to help the resistance escape, all a bunch bull crap and this all happens over a period of time of less than a week between the two movies. Where is her hero journey? Where is her struggles and failures?
The Mary Sue Rey is crying practically in ever other scene. Completely annoying!
The Vice Admiral Holdo character was a waste. They killed her off when she would have been a good character to take over for Princess Leia.
Vice Admiral Holdo not telling Poe her plan was another stupid side story that made no sense.
Bombers scene with the bombs dropping on the dreadnaught. Did the Rain Johnson forget that THERE IS NO GRAVITY IN SPACE!
Killing off of Snoke was a waste of a chance to have a great villain going forward, even though he was a rip off of the Emperor. Why build him up in the last movie to only kill him off half way through this one made no sense. We never get his back story and how he met Kylo Ren and turned him to the darkside.
I could go on further with more issues with the movie, but I'll leave it. I gave the movie six stars only for my love of Star Wars and because the movie visually was excellent, the music score, Mark Hamil's performance and the Millennium Falcon scene at the end was pretty awesome. I look forward to the Star Wars one off movies like Rogue One, such as the upcoming Obi Wan Kenobi movie and the Han Solo movie. I also hope to see Boba Fett, Darth Vader and Yoda get their own movies at some point. Hopefully they'll do a Knights of the Old Republic story which they could do over two trilogies, but the main saga has been ruined by Rian Johnson and J.J. Abrahams has his work cut out for Episode IX.Where does the Skywalker sage go fro here? Kylo is the only Skywalker family member left and he is evil. Thanks Rian Johnson for ruining the main Star Wars saga. As of right now I don't count this movie as canon. The Star Wars saga for me was episodes one through six.