This movie was our last hope...

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2017)

As a lifelong Star Wars fan I cannot express the utter disappointment of this film. I will not go into all of the details of what happens in this movie, as many other reviews already have.
That being said, can someone please explain to me why the Disney 'Imagineers' making these movies have no clue what makes Star Wars, Star Wars?
Do they not understand that George Lucas's vision was to reinvent the swashbuckling movies of the 1930s and 40s by giving it a SciFi twist set in the spaceaged future? (yes I know it's technically the past)
There's absolutely no true protagonist in this movie. I get that we already know who we are supposed to be routing for but story lines switch from character to character and are meaningless. In Empire, we switch between Luke's training on Degobah, everyone on the falcon and Darth Vador. 3 story close lines that eventually combine in a highly impactful way. The Last Jedi, however, is all over the place. Seems as though they were so Hell bent on being SJWs they forgot about Star Wars!
The most glaring hypocrisy of all is how this movie rails against capitalism. Hello, this movie is clearly a commercial, CGI, non-story film produced solely to make billions for the Disney Corporation!
You have to hand it to Hollyweird. Only they can get away with this crap!
My biggest complaint with this movie, as well as the force awakens, is the total disrespect they give to all of the rules and lessons we learned about the force from the first 6 movies. That may sound corny or movie geekish, but the truth is most of these principals were Lucas's adaptation from actual ancient philosophies from around the world. The ideals of the force, the Darkside and the light, speaks to the basic premise of good and evil, loyalty, devotion, love, hate and heroism Something that all of us encounter every day. To turn this philosophical saga into some slapstick, CGI, video game, product placement, comic book movie is just a real shame.
My ultimate hope for these last three movies was to see the original cast all reunited. They didn't have to be the main characters, but it would've been nice to see them work together again to help the resistance. It could've happened in TFA but sadly Harrison Ford put the kibosh on that. So now with all 3 characters unavailable for episode 9. So, indeed, this movie was our "last hope"!