The Last Jedi met my expectations... I expected it to suck.

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2017)

This is a muck fest of a film that attempts to create a story for the post-modernist millennial.
It felt like a mash-up of elements from Empire Strikes Back, a little from Return of the Jedi mixed up with elements from The Matrix and a Chinese Wuxia film.
The script tried so hard to become "fresh" by trying to break movie tropes but it doesn't work.
I totally agree with Mark Hamill this is not the direction Luke Skywalker would have taken, it seems like the character arc of Luke regressed and I didn't like his eyes bulging out most of the time in regret and fear.
Benicio del Toro's character seemed slapped on just to provide a betrayal but we never got to know his character that his betrayal didn't have much impact.
How did Poe and Rose escape execution? All the stormtroopers around them died except for them? And how did Captain Phasma survive and jump from standing next to Poe and Rose and then suddenly emerging from afar?
The rebels needed to go to the planet to transmit a message to the outer rim but yet Poe could communicate easily with Maz Kanata.
There is effectively no gravity. So how did the bombs fall?
Kylo offering his hand to Rey to rule the galaxy together didn't feel like a homage, but plagiarism.
Rose saving Finn from sacrificing himself wasn't heroic, it was a stupid and a cowardly selfish act.
So now Jedis have holographic projection powers?
Fight scene between Luke and Kylo felt like it was from the Matrix not Star Wars.
So even kids can suddenly get force powers? And that rebel ring is an on-the-nose merchandising attempt. That last kid scene really felt like it belonged to a Disney kids film, I half expected him to break out singing "Somewhere out there, beneath the clear blue sky..."
I don't really see much hope in the Star Wars movies anymore, I now hate the sequel trilogy even more than the prequel trilogy.