The last hope.... I've lost hope in anything quality coming from Star Wars

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2020)

Episode VIII was unsurprisingly worse than Episode VII. I had little hope going into this and I left it having even less belief in this franchise.
The Last Jedi begins by majoring on the wrong things from the get go. Po, Leia and the space battles against the First Order. I already had baggage with this coming into these scenes. Po comes across way too snarky and immature, and the battles are just cliche, boring action scenes reminding me of Michael Bay. This is all topped off with the absolutely ridiculous Mary Poppins moment where Leia somehow survives being in space and flies back into the ship!!! I literally burst out laughing at this absurdity. How did this get the all clear for going ahead for the final cut?
Things don't get any better with Luke and Rey's story. It doesn't make any sense why in a few minutes they would derail the whole point of the previous movie when Luke decides to throw away his light saber? This made the whole point of the last movie a waste of time. Luke comes across as a whiny teenager and although it's cool to not have a different actor to age and look like Luke e.g. like Young Solo in Solo, but you actually have the real Luke Skywalker aged perfectly. But just because it is the real Mark Hammel doesn't mean he will still be a good actor. Maybe there is a reason he hasn't been in other well known films.
Kylo Renn and Rey's connection baffles me, how does it work? Why has there never been a connection like this between Jedi's or Sith before? If anyone has the case to have this kind of connection its probably Luke and Leia since they're flippen twins! Yoda also seems to have way too much power coming back from the dead!
Then to make mattes worse, what the heck was up with this casino scene with Finn and Rose? This was way off kilter and felt totally out of place. Plus Rose's acting just really grinds my gears. It didn't feel slick or smooth, yet again.
Holdo gets way too much screen time and is wasted when time could've been spent on the main characters. Again with the space battles, who cares?
Then last of all is Snoke. Who is this guy? Where has he come from? And surely we will get to see such a big battle scene displaying his power, like something Star Wars has brought out in the past (some of the best villain battles of all time - Vader, Maul and Sidious). But instead we are left with some lame side character one hit kill, without any struggle at all really and some weird battle with red lego men afterwards. How on earth did they manage to go another whole movie without any serious light saber battles. I mean the old ones with worse CGI still made epic battle with Yoda. This battle should've been the big finale, but they major on some average teenage rant between Luke and Kylo Ren. How did Luke manage to make himself teleport as something more than a hologram, being able to fight! Why didn't he do this before?
Rose and Finn kissing! What? When they're friends are casually being killed in the background, when in Rome I guess? This was odd and Finn was much better suited to be with Rey in my opinion. How did this romance develop so quick, over the space of a few scenes. Didn't they just meet?
This movie was absolutely ridiculous and I have lost hope for anything better.