Edgy Script

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2018)

Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi is mired with script 101 mistakes. The director screams avant garde, but the film falls flat with fans and dissipates with a sizzle.
Rian Johnson does not know how to plant something meaningful, let alone have it payoff. The Knights of Ren are absent, foreshadowed in The Force Awakens. Snoke, the all powerful master is snuffed out by an edgy apprentice. Rey's parents, who abandon her on Jakku, are reduced to "nothing," a missed opportunity for character development and origin story exploration.
Character development is inconsistent. The chemistry of Rey and Finn is replaced by Finn and Rose. Poe Damaron is an insubordinate jackass; a loose cannon. Holdo keeps critical plans to herself. Luke, after learning his lesson from Yoda in Empire and Jedi, and against all odds saving his father, forgets his past and gives up to mope on an island for half the film. He doesn't mourn for Han, and only gets out of his rut when a special friend shows up. Leia, well... they should have killed her off.
The entire codebreaker/casino planet plotline can be removed from the script without affecting the "A" storyline. Deus ex Machina moments abound.
Questionable events and force powers litter the film. B-Wings are replaced by carpet bombing ships, one-manned capitol ships utilize hyperspace attacks, ripping First Order monstrosities in two, Mary Poppins lost her umbrella, Snoke (who's he?) concentrates too hard, culmanating in the epitome of rookie mistakes, extended universe holographic projection is a letdown, and killing off main characters is "edgelord" these days.
Sorry Rian, but when you have to explain every single decision you made in the script, you have a subpar piece of writing.
J.J. Abrams has an impossible task to clean this frivolous dungpile.