Well, that was a mess.

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2017)

After all the hard work that Force Awakens put in to expunge the prequels and provide a worthy successor to the original trilogy, along comes the Last Jedi to throw the series into the nearest trash compactor.
The annoying thing is that there was the germ of a decent movie lurking in there, but it was totally lost in the confusion created by the utterly pointless casino world subplot, the idiocy of Leia's return from space, and the mind-numbing lack of awareness credited to Snoke.
If Holdo had disclosed the plan to make for the abandoned rebel base, the Canto Bight/DJ subplot could have been avoided, cutting the running time to a more manageable two hours, and saving us from having Phantom Menace flashbacks.
Apart from Rey, all the rest of the characters were totally wasted in this film. Leia was asleep for most of it, Finn was away in a Prequel era short, Po was treated like an idiot, Snoke was an embarrassment to the Force, Phasma was pointless yet again, and Luke was a deus ex machina. Even Rey seemed to get her new powers from nowhere; the inclusion of Yoda just serving to point out that Luke actually did some training to develop his powers.
The only thing that sets this above Phantom Menace is the lack of Jar Jar Binks.