Barely a Star Wars film

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2017)

As a whole The Last Jedi is a mildly entertaining space movie but as a Star Wars movie...it's just terrible.
For a start there is very little emotional attachment to many of the characters especially Rose, she is a very 2D character and her acting is very below par. In fact ALL of the acting was less than acceptable!
Near the start of the movie the entire bridge is destroyed and it appears as if Leia is dead. What happens next is, in my opinion, the most ridiculous, infuriating, blood boiling, stupid thing to ever happen in the saga. Leia turns in to Superman from BvS coming back to life because of the sun and flying back to the ship. This destroyed my love for this film, so far away from what Star Wars is about and completely pulled me out of the experience. It would have been a lot better had they cut the rest of the scenes for Leia as when the bridge was destroyed there was a great emotional impact.
TLJ was incredibly slow, probably the slowest of the entire saga. If it were done properly and all of the boring parts been cut, we would have easily cut half an hour from the run time. It was so slow and at times infuriating I very almost walked out, I'm a life time Star Wars fan having seen all of the movies multiple times, all of the shows multiple times, read the comics, books...you name it and I've probably seen/read it and this film is just...so far away from Star Wars
Episode 9 better be up to expectations as this was the biggest let down I've EVER had in a cinema, in terms of entertainment and story telling it is right down there with the prequels...