The force is definitely not with this movie

Rating: 4/10 (16 December 2017)

I really don't know why this movie got hyped that much. Sure it's not a bad movie on its own but it still deserves comparison against other Star Wars movies and compared to them this movie is just bad.
I liked "The Force Awakens" a lot because it started something new mixed up with nostalgic elements. When I walked out of the cinema back in 2015 I was like "wow interesting times to come and the old characters are back and as good as before."
Now after "The Last Jedi" I ask myself how Disney wants to make a non-catastrophic episode 9. They're now empty-handed. Neither they have good nostalgic characters to work with nor new ones which actually could fill an episode 9 on it's own. The new characters didn't evolve at least a bit during episode 8 and all the old characters got whiped out. The new characters got kind of teasered in TFA and I expected some major development but instead all the new characters are still very sketchy.
Rian was more focused on whiping out all the legacy in that movie instead of bringing the new characters in position for a great showdown in episode 9.
There were a lot of jokes in TLJ and most of them were funny but the timing was horrible. Everytime the movie started to become at least a bit emotional a joke destroyed the whole atmosphere.
With the "Mary oppins" scene the movie hit bottom and never fully recovered. (I'm talking about the scene where Leia gets sucked out into space, survives and flies back to the ship. Yes - the umbrella is missing, I know.)
But not everything was bad. Actually the scene with Luke and Yoda was great and at least in that scene I realized I'm sitting in a Star Wars movie. Good dialogue with the right amount of humour and charme. The opening scene was also fun to watch and Star Wars worthy.
To sum it up: now that I've seen TLJ I would really appreciate if the new trilogy would not be that strongly connected to the original trilogy. All the two movies do are to shadow the original trilogy instead of continuing it.