Don't waste your time, remember Star Wars as it was.

Rating: 4/10 (16 December 2017)

I might have thought "The Force Awakens" was slightly disappointing when I first saw it. Well, I must change my mind.
From the unfortunate perspective of a viewer of "The Last Jedi", I feel obliged to reconsider my previous opinion. The first movie of this unnecessary postmodern Star Wars trilogy seems like a masterpiece if compared to the absolute tragedy of the last chapter.
Cheap humor? Incoherent dialogs? ClichÃ©s?
What happened to Star Wars, the innovative, mindblowing, legendary franchise that made poeple dream, shiver and sigh?
Nothing more than the mere name survives.
The authentic vibe of the old trilogies is now so irremediably lost under a pile of easily sellable garbage, that not even a miraculous change in the next chapter could bring it back to life.
Which is bitterly ironic, considering that the only purpose "The Last Jedi" seems to be aiming to is to live shamefully in the light of the six glorious prequels (yes, even "The Phantom Menace").
On a less sentimental ground, I must add that, incredibly, the plot of this new movie does not add anything new or meaningful to Chapter VII. The only substantially unexpected events (Snoke's death and Luke's poetic dissolution into the Force) are, but I am not even surprised anymore, treated without the necessary emphasis or the dramatic touch that these moments need.
On the other hand, useless characters (I am referring to those played by Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro) and CGI monstrosities (crystal foxes, screaming penguin/hamsters or whatever they are) spend way too much time on the screen.
And then one last, unforgivable error : Yoda.
Why did they have to use the grotesque, puppet-like figure of the Jedi master which appeared in the first trilogy, while the little green hero as portrayed in the second one was a renowned success worthy of imitation?
There are too many questions to be answered regarding this movie, while in the past the only one was : "when will I watch the next chapter of Star Wars?".
Today, I don't even want to know if and when Chapter IX will be out.
My conclusion is deeply pessimistic and personally surprising :one can undoubtedly say these last two movies were ineffective and trivial, but they did have at least a relevant effect, that is killing the most perfect science fiction saga of all time.