Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Is it a parody or an advertisement...why not both

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2017)

Let's start with the good parts, since we will spend less time with that (sadly).
Compared to Episode VII Rey and Kylo Ren did really improve regarding character depth, as well as development. For me they are the "highlight" of a mediocre to bad written movie, making most of their story path and surroundings enjoyable and adding a well thought-out twist gave it a nice touch, until it was thrown out of the window in the end anyway.
Some scenes in between were breathtaking and were giving me goosebumps.
Now to the rest. The side story and the second main story were unnecessary and boring to watch. Especially the middle part felt like an eternity, as soon as Finn made his appearance. Could have been left out and it would not have made any difference. The other main story path, with Leia and Poe Dameron in the leading roles, was mind blowing in a sense where i had a hard time holding in my laughter, about how implausible and ridiculous a few scenes were. Some of the plot made no sense and was just stretching the movie to give time for other story lines in the most lazy way possible. The same counts for the Finn part.
I dislike how our "heroes" got into 100% death situations, but got rescued by ex machina again and again, surviving unrealistic assaults and circumstances. I am sorry, but after the 27th time i really don't care anymore, about them getting into trouble...they must be made out of Adamantium, otherwise i cant explain it. It would have given the movie some nice and emotional moments, if they'd let someone go, but i guess they needed to sell more action figures, so we got at least that going for us...
I don't understand how Rian Johnson could just throw away Episode 7, ignoring or simply destroying most of the build up, leaving us with this mess of a story. Instead of thinking about possible solutions, he took the laziest and easiest route to just abandon everything the prequel gave us. I am really disappointed in the decision making...this goes for Snoke, as well as Captain Phasma and many more (this makes the prequel even worse than it was before).
What really cracked me up was how Luke Skywalker was displayed and depicted. They tried to explain his change, but in the end it was not believable to this extend and just didn't add up.
The cherry on top of that was the use of so many unfunny and unsuitable slapstick jokes, which ruined some intense and dramatic moments, without any good reason. The fact, that they repeated themselves at some point wasn't helping either.
Conclusion:
After finishing the movie i left the cinema speechless and i felt something i didn't feel in a very long time: I felt bad spending money on something like this. The movie had potential, but instead built in weak and unfitting jokes, ridiculous and unbelievable scenes, as well as falling back into the same concept of good versus evil. It could have been so much better...the ideas were there, but some decisions destroyed the movie and i assume Disney is partly to blame.
If nothing changes i don't see a bright future for the franchise and i will think again, if i will spend any more money on Star wars movies, especially if Rian Johnson is involved.