You get what you didn't ask for

Rating: 4/10 (11 May 2018)

Critics be damned. They want to review the film by calling out the audience as unable to understand, acting as if The Last Jedi is some higher than though cinematic idol that only those of supreme taste can understand. The truth is that we now live in a time were the people do understand the language of film and care about what you do when telling a story. They don't always just want a spectacle to distract them and should desire more than that from films they admire.
The film lacks in substance and that is what is intuitively being reacted to from those who expected a break away from the same old story that Star Wars has been regurgitating. Here was an opportunity to explore the gray, honor the past while moving forward (which JJ Abrams symbolically had already done and begun in The Force Awakens) and bring Star Wars to the 21st century. We did not want a glossy updated look on Star Wars, we tried that back with the prequels and the rest is history.
Will you be entertained? Yes. Will you be shocked by some of the choices? Sure. Will you at the end of the day shrug it off as passable? Si. It's just too bad that it felt like a reboot to a reboot by reiterating what The Force Awakens had already done, passing the torch on to the next generation, only in this case not trusting the next generation to actually fulfills its goal by robbing them of any guidance.