What has happened to this once great Saga

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2018)

Quite paradoxically, The Last Jedi is a film that is loved not by what it defends, but by what it seeks to destroy. Aesthetically ugly, deliberately degrading, with a nihilistic anti-Star Wars message and lines so badly written it may be the most critically overrated script in quite some time.
It's like Lucas told Rian Johnson that he felt that "I hate sand" was the worst romantic line ever written and Rian replied "hold my beer" before writing "This is how we win". It seems Disney and maybe even the higher echelons of Lucasfilm were acutely unaware of most of this before release.
Claims to its success are based on misrepresentation of the facts. Avengers: Infinity War - a true modern masterpiece that deconstructs the genre and subverts expectations in an intelligent, engrossing, satisfying way - made nearly twice as much like its predecessors, The Last Jedi barely passed the halfway mark.
Johnson has destroyed something beautiful.
At least people will never let him forget.