An absolute disaster that improves to a huge mess

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2018)

The first 80 minutes of this film are shockingly bad. It's like you've walked into the middle of 40 films at once, nothing is explained, no logic, no reason for things. Who's this guy? What's happened? Why is Luke assaulting some big aardvark thing and drinking it's milk with such relish? Why is he fishing for giant rubber fish with a 50 foot long stick?
The section on the Casino planet is worse than anything George Lucas dreamed up in the prequels, it's just bad. As is the new love interest of Finn, about as simple a backstory as you can get, the worst first kiss ever commited to film and it urinates all over any connection from the Force Awakens between Finn and Rey, not that there was much of one but a lingering shot in The Last Jedi seems to imply that Rey is in love with Finn now. I don't know. This film does what it likes.
Leia is a Jedi and can fly in space without a ship in what must be one of the most WTF moments in any film with lore, Snoke is completely CG for no reason and looks like a character render from a PS3 cutscene, the AT-ATs have emotions now and can square up to people. It's just bizarre.
Redeeming things about this film are few. Mark Hamill was decent, I enjoyed his performance for the most part, there are a couple of set pieces that are visually great. Other than that there's not much on offer.
I'm not holding out much hope for Rian's trilogy. If Disney see sense they'd redistribute the films.
Hoping that Solo is good because that might be the last hope for decent Star Wars films for a while.