Don't Ruin Star Wars by Seeing Last Jedi

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2017)

I have loved Star Wars for a long time. I wanted to love this movie. Now, I'm just angry.
Star Wars has always been about telling an epic story that anyone can identify with, in a universe that is so exciting and rich that we are transported there. The Last Jedi is none of that.
The story is so buried in hackneyed humor and forced agenda, that the few moments that actually succeed at being genuinely entertaining are strangled out.
When you see what they've done to Luke Skywalker, it breaks your heart, not because it is poignant or intentional, but because it is so low-brow. He is turned into a coward and a buffoon. Leia is so stately and soft, she bears no resemblance to the fiery freedom fighter that strangled Jabba with her own slave chains. She was a bad-ass, now she is milquetoast.
Throwing in a few poorly made puppets doesn't make it feel like the originals.; it feels like pandering. You can make good animatronics, make them. What people like is that they feel more real than CG. But the lack of realism in the CG creatures and environments just proves that what the film really lacked was a decent artistic eye, and instead went for splashy colors.
The entire storylines of Fin, Poe, Leia, the Resistance, General Hux, literally everyone but Kylo, Rey and Luke, were completely uninteresting, and ultimately just felt like an excuse for more bad jokes. This didn't feel like it was made for adults, or children. This feels like it was made for producers and marketing.