Honest thoughts

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2017)

To start I'm 40 years old. I remember my mom taking me when I was young to watch Return of the Jedi . I enjoyed it now as much as I did then . As the years gone on we got the back story of Star Wars the fall of Aniken Skywalker the rise of Darth Vader Rogue one to tie the old with the new . Now we are on a new trilogy a new story with new players . But...... something is not right with the force . Let me elaborate
The Force Awakens to me was a great starting point it introduced new players in the universe and brought back the ones we loved . It introduced a new threat in the first order a new evil force user Snoke . The down fall of Ben Solo to Kylo the master of the knights of Ren . It set up a great next film. The last Jedi.
But....in my opinion The last Jedi fell short of my expectations. The movie although visual stunning the story was lacking and just sort of seemed rushed in editing. Parts of the movie seemed to stall and once it got going the arc would change to something not so relevant in context to what was just absorbed.
Luke ( Mark Hamil )role was less than I expected. I was wanting a broken Jedi master who could find his own place back in the force to train a new promising Jedi in Rey . That did not happen. I was hoping for an epic Luke vs Snoke battle ....that didn't happen . What did happen was a broken tired Luke force projecting himself to let the resistance escape just to fade away into nothing after words. I'm sorry this is not how I expected my childhood hero to go out . It's freaking Luke Skywalker.....
Snoke.......Who is he ? Where's he from ? How'd he become the supreme leader .........no one knows his story just sorta dies like him in this movie.
And Phasma.....nothing more
Lightsaber battles we're underwhelming to say the least

Now the movie has moments of brilliance . Chewy trying to eat a Porg. Yoda's return . Rose saving Finn . But again parts just stall out.
The biggest question I have is how is this going forward to episode 9. Luke is gone , Han is gone , Lea is alive but Carrie Fisher has past on. Rey and Kylo are both conflicted . Who is left to help ? Who is left to help guide Rey ? What is the direction ........ because I'm confused as if now where the saga is going .
I score this a 7 out of 10. Not the best not epic it's just good and way better than episodes 1 ,2 and 3