i am glad they are making star wars movies but wish George Lucas had been allowed to continue

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2017)

Warning major spoiler ! So this is Disney, a well oiled machine. Completely competent movie but completely vanilla. Somewhere I read that this movie had an unexpected ending and broke all the star wars tropes. Nothing could be further from the reality.
Disney the money making machine, heard that people hated the prequels (which by the way I love) and loved the original trilogy. So what did they do, made the original trilogy over again with a new younger and more diverse cast. Every plot point in the empire stikes back is covered like a check list. Rebel base gets discovered and rebels need to escape: Check. Main young protagonist goes of to seek the master: Check. Ground war: Check. Need help and seek it out on a gambling planet but seem to get sold out to the bad guys: Check. K could probably go on. It is empire strikes back with a gender reversal with the main and secondary characters nothing more.
And as for the movie itself, there was no character in there I really liked except maybe the the Asian woman who was a Tec. I wasn't really invested in anyone.
I loved Rogue one. I loved the characters . The robot was the best ever. I loved the backgrounds, the motivation. I loved the pseudo science. I cared about the characters. Why couldn't they have used the original extended star wars universe to create new movies rather then remake the originals.
Also it was sloppy writing. Unless I missed something there was a huge plot hole. She the code breaking character betrayed them he did so by revealing that the shuttles were sneaking down to the planet. How did he know this? That information was never revealed to him. When they were captured they were still under the notion that they were trying to get down the tracker.
And by the way, the prequels. I am a science fiction fan and these were true science fiction. Science fiction can be about Tec. But mostly it is about the human condition, about who we are as humans and is dorm of the deepest most meaningful of writing as in Brave New World . The prequels where about how a society can sink into authoritarianism. They are high art and so relevant to our times there 20 years later and high art. The Last Jedi is not. Also sorry about the editing writen on a cell phone