Too many mistakes

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2017)

To start with the marketing departure of Disney made a great job putting the impression in our minds that this one could be close to 'the empire strikes back'. I am referring to comments of JJ Abrams on the high quality of the story, reactions to early Screenings and even reviews from normally reliable magazines. The only explanation for this misjudgement may be that Cobb from Inception now works for Disney.
The reality is that 'Last Jedi' is a disappointment. It is far worse than the two newest Star Wars movies which I voted 9/10. The main reason is the poor story. Additionally there are some really big plot holes where you think 'aha if this is possible why hasn't person y done this in situation x before (in this one or any other film)?' This is one aspect which makes me angry because most of the plotholes could have been easily fixed. Why not hire somebady to look out for those mistakes? After all Disney does not seem to dislike reshoots. When the good atmosphere created by good pictures, costumes etc. (which is similar to the old movies by the way) is not destroyed by those plotholes, the chances are good that totally misplaced humor (even though the jokes are funny if you judge them isolated) do the rest.
Nevertheless there are also good aspect in this movie justifying 6 stars (on second thought it may be just a 5/10). These are the atmosphere (before it gets destroyed several times), the acting of Mark Hamill especially and the other main characters as well, plus some overall good scenes. To sum up sadly the bad aspects of the movies outweigh its good ones. This is especially annoying because I had the feeling that the movvie could have been an 8/10 if a few decisions by the director would have been different/better.