Absolute waste of your time - Worst Star Wars movie ever -

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2018)

I was not a big fan of The Force Awakens when it came out, I like to support underdogs whether its in sports or entertainment and Rey's character was just too damn good at everything for me to support her.
Apart from her character's lack of depth/challenges and the obvious script parallels with A New Hope, The Force Awakens wasn't a terrible movie to me. It was nicely paced, had some good action, lightsabers touched and it set up a bit of intrigue for The Last Jedi by leaving a few compelling questions up in the air (who are the knights of Ren, who is Snoke, how is Reys's character going to develop/is she actually going to face some challenges, what is Luke up to/how is he aligned etc).
I hated The Last Jedi, there was about a 1.5 hour period in the middle of the movie where I had a headache from all the dumb decisions characters were making, all the stupid jokes that were being forced, the complete waste of time that was Finn's trip to the Casino planet and the absolute lack of any bloody action. I can't understand how people think this is an excellent (7-10 star) movie, the scripting sucks, the acting is very patchy, the narrative sucks, there is hardly any action, some characters suck and get way too much screentime (Finn's girlfriend, purple-haired idiot woman) while other characters get killed offscreen (Ackbar) or just aren't focused on enough (Phasma? worst storm trooper ever? gets death planet blown up and then dies like a wimp?)
I really liked following Kylo's internal conflict and am still somewhat interested in his character. After the first movie I felt that Kylo had been basically made to look like a scrub and was probably the least badass lightsaber wielding antagonist Star Wars had seen. Adam Driver stole the show with his acting in the Last Jedi and I really wished the movie had followed him more and at least a mini-boss, mid-movie battle with Rey or atleast someone. By the time Rey and Kylo fight the Praetorian (Red Guard guys?) Guards, I was so jaded from having watched the rest of the movie that I didn't enjoy the scene as much as I should have.
I believe it was Red Letter Media (Half in the Bag review show on YouTube) that expressed the theory that the director for the Last Jedi took note of the fact that everyone thought The Force Awakens was a safe almost carbon copy of A New Hope (narrative wise) and then decided to make The Last Jedi something completely different that no one expected.
The problem is he failed spectacularly at doing this, making the most boring Star Wars movie in existence, with characters/factions doing the stupidest things (First Order cant see small ships, First Order cant detect a hyper drive warp/know that it will destroy their entire fleet, purple hair not sharing her plans, labelling Finn and Poe as heroes when their exploits got hundreds/thousands killed) as well as other bizarre and almost insulting narrative points such as revealing nothing about Snoke (and then killing him off?), killing Ackbar offscreen when he could have easily replaced the role of the purple hair lady and honestly having Luke go out the way he did at the end of the movie. Both Factions, The First Order and the "Resistance," and their leaders are made to look like absolute idiots in this movie. Its like the benny hill show theme song should have come on at points - Resistance - I will not share my plan and instead fly slowly away until we are almost completely wiped out - First Order - Hold back all our fighters, while our cannons do nothing to their shields lets just fly slowly behind the resistance ships and shoot them for shots and giggles. The Last Jedi ALMOST feels like the final movie in the trilogy (or series or whatever), except for the fact that Rey hasn't really experienced any growth as a character (can lift rocks now and can talk to Kylo through her head?), the major antagonists are still alive, Leia is still alive (her actress is dead however - how did they screw this up!) and there are a handful of people left in the "Resistance."
What happens now? Are they gonna grow a bunch of cannon-fodder resistance soldiers in a big hydroponics operation? What possible resources do they have to do anything against the First Order? At the same time, both General Hux and Kylo seem too incompetent to lead the entire First Order by themselves, is the next movie just going to be another episode of whose leadership are the bigger morons?
One of the worst things about this movie for me, was at some points (Casino planet springs to mind) it didn't even feel like a Star Wars movie, it felt like some B-Grade average sci-fi blockbuster with all the weird/cringe humor and cutesy stuff going on. To be honest though, while the prequels werent exemplary examples of film-making - they were special and definitely Star Wars. They always had a decent amount of lightsaber action, some big battles, great antagonists, a bit of (weakly executed) political intrigue, established a universe (returned to Coruscant, Tatooine, Naboo etc multiple times) and had some interesting stuff thrown in (Podracers!) LIGHTSABERS DONT EVEN TOUCH IN THIS MOVIE. The ground assault scene on the salt planet was preposterous as well - why did the girl stop Finn from potentially destroying the bunker buster gun (she didnt know ghost luke was going to turn up and distract the bumbling First Order)? How did Finn drag her body all the back to the base so fast, they sped across there for ages in those speeder things? Of course, as I said above, the casino planet arc made me want to leave the cinema.
Absolute mess of a review, apologies, I don't write many, but I believed it was necessary to help balance the "Force" in regards to the reviews this movie is receiving. I am really not remotely interested in what the next movie has in store, I was angry with how bad this movie was but I think I was more so just disappointed. I love Star Wars and think that you could make some awesome movies with todays technology, quality of narrative production (TV shows have almost become a better source of stories/acting than movies now) and acceptance of somewhat dark themes + violence. The Last Jedi reflects none of these things, it's almost 3 hours of poorly written/acted boring drama, with characters/factions making idiotic decisions and almost no Star Wars action.
1 Star is generous from me.Spoilers! Worst Star Wars Movie - The worst movie I went to the cinema for this year - Huge Disappointment