What a disappointment...

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2017)

I watched the movie yesterday with my brother. We have never walked out of cinema so disappointed and so speechless.
From the get go the audience is confronted with a disjointed story, scenes that build up only to fall apart quickly, unrealistic characters (or badly cast actors), painful and cringe-worthy puns and humor, and repetitions of past scenarios.
Warning spoilers follow from here onwards.
Here is a roundup of the nonsense:
1) The movie starts off with a massive new type of ship belonging to the empire. A Dreadnought - looks big, deadly and you think cool there is going to be action now. Along comes Poe, in this little fighter, picking off the canons on the Dreadnaught and for some reason the Empire, with all its resources, manpower and organization did not think to give this massive ship defenses or any escort. Super realistic, well done.
2) The Rebellion sends off a small band of X-Wings and bombers to attack the Dreadnaught. For some reason the bombers fly slowly, you know because we have air friction and gravity in space. On top of that they are also designed to drop their payload (round bombs) downwards, you know because... gravity Super realistic, well done.
3) At some point in the movie Princess Leias command ship is attacked. The command center is bombed. Leia is blasted into outer space. We then have her floating around space, in slow motion, is she dead or is she not? Camera zoom in to her seemingly frozen face, then her hand.oh look a twitch. She then uses the force to pull herself back into the ship fully awake and aware while a few seconds ago she was seemingly unconscious. This scenes just looked comical.
4) Another amazing highlight. Vice Admiral Holdo. Never seen such a miscast character. Played by Laura Dern running around in an evening dress with dyed hair. Here my brain because exhausted and I could not keep up the willing suspension of disbelief. I am all for putting some gender balance into films, but this was so in your face I cringed with shame. She looked and acted nothing like a battle hardened admiral but more like she had just come back from a Gala Dinner with DJ Bobo. Throughout the movie she looked like she was about to cry. Painful.
5) Hoping for something new? Forget it, once again we have the Empire, with all its might, resources, man and woman power making dumb decision after another and having all their plans outsmarted by a band of misfit rebels. This aspect is getting old and boring.
6) Humor. Was painful. Far too many scenes of people trying hard not to take themselves or others seriously while trying to say something funny. All that was missing was a pause by the actors and fake laughter in the background and the 80s sitcom experience would have been complete. That's the level reached by The Last Jedi.
I could go on, but it is too painful.
Overall the story felt fake, unrealistic and forced. Everything about it was forced. Total let-down.