Rian Johnsons "The Last Jedi" does not deliver

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2017)

I am sorry I have to agree with the people who genuinely dislike the movie for many reasons, and it is unfair to shove them aside as "haters".
Being a fan of the original trilogy from the early eighties on, I strongly believe the story deserved a better movie than The Last Jedi. The movie is flawed in many ways.
Yes, the movie is great in visuals, the sound is excellent, the music score is fantastic, but the story is well ... silly.
This is not about Luke dying somewhere along these movies, or about giving way to new characters for the new generation, that is all ok, I get that. Han Solo died in The Force Awakens, and we all understood. This is about a bad storyline that was poorly directed. It truly feels the story was written in a rush, and Rian Johnson was to stubborn to accept any advice (like from Mark Hamill). Rogue One had many re-shoots of scenes to make the movie better, and it produced very good movie. Why did no one at Disney realise that this story line was just not cutting it ? Why with all those resources you did not intervene ? Was it that they were too mixed up with the Han Solo movie problems, that they forgot to really evaluate the quality of The Last Jedi ?
I will not go into the errors in the movie extensively, it has been reported by many people now, but simply consider all the story plot-lines from the Force Awakens that where completely unanswered. People are now pointing to the box office revenues telling you that with that income the movie cannot be bad, but that is mainly because people are going to watch the movie to see their questions answered after watching The Force Awakens. They will be disappointed.
I think Rian Johnson was not the right person to write and direct the story for the simple reason that he is not as big as a fan of the original movies as for instance JJ Abram is. And that was required to do this. He should have listened to the people around him, like Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill concluded their dispute by saying "in the end it is just a movie". I think he was mocking Ryan Johnson, because he knows like no other it is not just a movie. People grew up with these characters and these movies. It truly deserved a lot better.
People are also telling you that people who did not see the other movies will probably think this is a very good movie. Maybe. But this NOT a standalone movie. This is not a Rian Johnson epic. This is a Star Wars story and it should have respected that, despite paving the way for a new Star Wars. You could have come up with so many bold stories keeping that in mind. Now it seems that they tried to get rid of the Star Wars history by making it a caricature.
The Last Jedi, could have been very good. There is many scenes that prove it could have been. The space battles are visually excellent for instance. But bad humour, plot-holes, a flat story, irrelevant plot lines, flat character development and many other flaws really leaves you asking why they did not come up with something better.