Rian 'WHO' Johnson

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2017)

To take on a movie dynasty like Star Wars was always a daunting task... and when Disney got involved, I thought 'I've got a bad feeling about this'.... luckily with JJ on the case, The Force Awakens was very good, and more importantly, very true to the nature of the saga.
Then, for reasons i will never understand Rian Johnson gets the gig... I mean I loved Breaking Bad and The Fly episode was very memorable cos it was so quirky. Then Looper - an ok movie, made ok.. How on earth does this guy then get this gig ?!?!?
Relatively unknown and told he can re-write almost the entire script... what do we then get - a very long movie, trying to tell lots of stories (almost all not to a decent standard), a major lack of character development and then well, you get an ok movie which is almost entirely received as meh !
Lets hope IX can make amends, please.