Something isn't right here...

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

As the most die-hard Star Wars fan who saw Episode 7 as a brilliant movie, I cannot for one second understand how this is 'The best Star Wars movie since Empire Strikes Back'.
This movie was down right terrible for a number of reasons and it makes me think that the Disney machine is in full work mode, paying for good reviews. Here's why I think it was bad:

The Luke/Rey dynamic: Episode 7 spent its entire time finding Luke. When Rey arrives to get training in Episode 8, not only does Luke not care but... He doesn't even care about not caring. He's not the teacher that we all expected him to be - that's fine. Then at least pursue the opposite of that which is trying to drive Rey away. He doesn't even do that... He just watches her from a distance while she somehow develops great lightsaber techniques. How did she do that? He most certainly didn't deliver anything important.

Luke Skywalker himself: oh my god. This hurt the most. Luke just became some funny character. Grotesquely milking this weird animal, fishing and forcing the worst humour. There honestly isn't much to say about him because that's all he was reduced to....

Leia: she gets blown out of a ship - that's cool, she's dead with her body floating in space. Then all of a sudden she's in touch with what I presume to be The Force and floats back to the ship? It was so cheesey, even by prequel standards.

Why the hell does everything disappear?: this one really bugged me towards the end of the movie. Luke appears out of no where inside the new rebel base (theres one way in and the other back entrance is blocked until Rey comes and clears it). He hands Leia some bracelet and goes to fight Kylo Ren. When Ren strikes him, it turns out he's actually some sort of mind projection - that's cool. So after his projection is struck down by Kylo Ren, we cut back to the island where Luke actually is. And then, he disappears. He's dead, that's it. The bracelet disappears to and so does some other stuff.

The sub-plots: The Finn sub-story and the Poe sub-story were just boring and dragged the movie out. I found Episode 8 trying to do so many things and because of that volume, it didn't get deep into anything.

There are so many more negative things to say so I'll end on a positive:

Killing Snoke scene: this was amazing. The way Rey and Ren handle the guards was so good and Kylo zaps one guard quickly while he's in a headlock just got me pumped.

... For the anticlimactic ending that is The Last Jedi... If people perceive this to be a good movie, I'll accept that. We all enjoy different things. But to say it's the best Star Wars movie since Episode 5 takes things to a different level and really makes me think that the critics must be coerced into writing outstanding reviews, because its so unrealistic that anyone would put Episode 8 on the same level as Episode 5.