What the apologists just do not understand...

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2019)

...Is that Star Wars is a whole lot more than just 'a big franchise', it is an institution and part of our cultural heritage. You cannot go ahead and deconstruct it to your liking and expect everyone to come out feeling the same way as you felt as you painted the canvas with your brush...Which is what Rian Johnson did and it backfired by not a little.
There is a lot to complain about with The Last Jedi, from how it disrespects the lore and its classic characters to its mess of a story to its apparent political party high-fiving, and its general lack of satisfactory storytelling...But ultimately the one sin that will cross the mind the most while viewing...Is that it simply is not fun, like at all. It is very cold, dull, and presents nothing new to spark the imagination. Not even the action scenes are anything to write home about.
Those saying that The Last Jedi is a better representation of Star Wars than all of the original trilogy and better than all of A New Hope, Empire, and Return are seriously deluded, if anything this is probably the worst representation of Star Wars(Well maybe not, there is that Christmas special that shall not be discussed beyond this sentence, but it is close nonetheless).
I'll be honest to say that I liked The Force Awakens and Rogue One, and loved the Rebels series and some of the other tie-in material Disney has produced since their acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, however the duds that were The Last Jedi and Solo pretty much put water onto the spark of excitement and intrigue I had once felt for Disney Star Wars.