Get's worse the longer you think about it SPOILERS

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2017)

I saw The Last Jedi last night, and I was really excited and looking forward to seeing it. I loved The Force Awakens, and as the movie started I thought 'here we go again! The movie starts out great, but after a while I suddenly found myself not liking any of the various storylines, and I started to feel massively underwhelmed, and thought 'hold on, am I not enjoying this?'
The first thing that started to bug me was the comedy, it threw me straight away, and felt cheap. The prank call by Po to the ship was funny but it was more Family Guy than Star Wars. In some parts characters might as well have turned to the camera and winked at the audience. It was just like Thor Ragnorok or something. Is everyone a stand up comic now? A film can still be light hearted without cheap gags every 5 minutes. I feel this is Star Wars trying to be more like Marvel.
Finn and Rose's side story was really bad, first I thought that it was exciting what they were attempting to do, to save everyone - but I hated the casino scenes and I hated the DJ character and his stupid stutter. All the CGI creatures and racing track felt very 'Phantom Menacey'.
While they are on their mission we are left with Po and the others on the sip with the First Order in some kind of slow motion chase like OJ on the freeway! The First Order people are like 'should we finish them off?' and the answer is 'no lets just wait until they run out of fuel, its a lot more boring this way but what the hell'. The whole ting felt like a boring version of the van falling off the bridge into the water from Inception. And the whole time their only plan is to run away to a nearby moon and call for help?
By far the best part of the movie is Rey and Luke on the island, but this whole plot line does not go as you would hope, pretty much the first thing Luke does is fling the lightsaber over his shoulder after Rey throws it to him and that sets the tone for the rest of their time together.
I really liked the scenes on the ship with Rey and Kylo Ren , and the fight with the imperial guards was amazing. But that whole part was a rip off of Empire. I still enjoyed it though.
There were some Hugo plot hole which bugged me, and I will list a few here:
The speeders take about 20 minutes to race towards the 'battering ram' with no clear way on how they are going to stop it if they ever get anywhere near it, it seems like the only way is for someone to go kamikaze as Finn prepares to do, then Rose stops him and is like 'I saved you' but if it hadn't been for Luke showing up, everyone would have died because of her. The even though they have been speeding away form the base for a good 2 minutes, all the pilots who survived seem to get back to the base on foot within about 5 minutes, including Finn who was dragging Rose!
Luke can project himself and appear either solid or transparent, this fools Kylo Ren, but it seems like Leia knows what he was doing because she doesn't go back for him or anything when they leave. So how does Kylo not realise Luke is a hologram? Does he not know Jedi can do that?
Also the who force connection thing seemed just like a way to get Rey and Kylo to interact without having to be in the same place, so it seemed like a crutch for the screenwriter rather than a new thing Jedi could do.
Two of the biggest questions for TFA - who is Rey and who are her parents, and who is Snoke, were just squashed. I was very disappointed that Snoke's origin was given no explanation. He is clearly powerful with the dark side of the force, and old - so he must have been around while episodes IV, V & VI were going on? It seems a bit far fetched that he is so strong with the force but doesn't realise that Kylo is messing around with a lightsaber he is sat right next to. If it were so easy to do that Luke could have do it to the Emperor in Empire and Return.
Ah well I guess I've written too much. I don't see myself watching this movie again too many times, unlike the other Star Wars movies. I hope that JJ picks up the pace for episode IX, and won't be getting too excited about the next spin off.
6/10 mainly for the great visuals, music and well filmed lightsaber fights.