flawed script with a lack of vision and inspiration.

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2017)

It is somehow saddening to see such beautiful craftmanship both in practical and computer generated effects, very good acting (judging by the poor material the actors had to work with) and as always impressive technical qualities.
Yet the movie leaves you empty. It is full of cheap tricks, suprises that come out of nowhere, characters being killed of just for the sake of it, meaningless plots and scences with twists that actually leave you unimpressed because they require your to blend out a lot... really a LOT of details. At more than one point you have to ignore common sense and logic in order to accept the storyline.
Why does Snoke read into the minds of those around him, keep control of one light saber and completely neglect the one beside him. Where does that magical collapsed door, only 1m thick come from in the snow base? Why didn't Kylo Ren realize, Luke was only a projection, why didn't Yodas Ghost show up earlier? Why didn't the rebells light speed their ships sooner into the enemy ships (seriously.. what a stupid scene that was) Sorry but there are way too many flaws, way too many questions... the script really seems to be a half arsed work. It copies elements from other, much greater works but doesn't seem to understand what makes these other movies and series great. It's like a cheap copy of something much better than this. There are character deaths everywhere and I can only imagine the script writer slapping himself on the back and saying "That will be just like game of throne! People love unexpected deaths!" No.--- no they do NOT. The deaths in Game of Thrones where harsh, but they didn't come out of nowhere... they were not cheap shock effects, they were built upon with a tight, logic and well thought out storyline, something "The Last Jedi" does not provide.
But the thing I can't forgive is the lack of inspiration. You have seen almost everything in this movie in the Star Wars movies before. Where are the new worlds. the new ideas, the themes? We have seen Casinos, Cantinas and Starships before. We have seen chases in caves and canyons, desolate temples and "ice worlds" before.. where is the new thing? There is almost nothing you have not seen in the TV Series or the trilogies before. Thematically and artistically it is a bancrupt movie and that might be the worst thing you can say about a Star Wars movie.