Don't have to be Rolling stone to see how bad it is

Rating: 5/10 (2 February 2020)

There's not much to say about The Last Jedi that hasn't been said before; it's ridden with some severe plot holes and "what was that?" moments that even a casual moviegoer can notice.
Because I've seen reviews that point out several mistakes in the movie (and it's making) that sound rather technical and very analytic, but the gist of my review here is that you don't have to over analyze the movie or be a critic to become aware of these flaws, my goodness, just the Leia scene where she Mary Poppins's herself back into the ship's bridge; people in my theater were laughing, when clearly the scene was meant to provoke awe and grasping from the audience, but just like in many other sequences in the film, the scene fails to evoke a reaction in the audience coherent with what R. Johnson intended, but that's the thing, what DID he intend in the first place ?
To prove Leia has force powers?, to show just how annoying and stupid can a female supporting character can be (y'all know who im talking about)?
Or to allow Disney to make a fortune off of Porg plushies?
Just a ridiculous sequence after another, and then of course, the whole casino part, which we could probably do without entirely, and cut down the over 2 hour runtime of this thing. But overall what maddens me the most is how they lay waste of elements in the film that could've developed into actually promising assets for it, such as Laura Dern for gods sake, LAURA DERN, as in, Marriage Story and Big little Lies; aaaand Adam Driver, who many argue, carries the entire sequel trilogy on his shoulders (and I have to say I don't entirely agree, to me, it's the FX and the cinematography that carry it) but Adam Driver is no Hayden Christensen, I mean he's actually a great actor, and the chance to be a villain in a Star Wars movie should've been the opportunity of a lifetime for him, yet neither JJ nor Johnson cared much, and made Kylo Ren a dull and soulless character, with (no pun intended) no drive whatsoever; as much as his antithesis Rey, is also simply boring, and I'd rather see both of them in Battlefront II as playable characters, because there, you can literally see more emotion and action happening with them and between them by literally controlling them yourself, than what JJ and Johnson did directing them.
And also, Luke, tf was Johnson thinking?, again, you don't have to be a movie critic to point out that he barely "trained" Rey at all, and I'm not even gonna go into how ridiculously overpowered she is, it's just insane how little time she spends in training, which should be like, the most important part of the movie since she spend the entirety of episode VII searching for him, so he would train her and "show her the way of the Jedi"; and with that little time she basically becomes the next Anakin, the next Luke, the next Chosen one; but the movie gives us the message that it's ok if you're useless and barely know how to handle lightsaber let alone the freaking force, you can still be the cause and effect of an entire trilogy of films that add up to one of the biggest and most beloved movie franchises in the history of humanity.
P.D. I'd just like to say, however, that the scene where Holdo lunges the cruise ship into Snoke's, is probably one of the most amazing and breathtaking shots in movie history, and I remember when I was a kid and my dad showed me episode IV, and I was mesmerized by the scene of the destruction of Alderaan, and somehow this scene made me feel the same way, and of course Laura Dern was in it, so it's twice as good then.