Good Bye Star Wars SPOILER alert

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 2017)

Good bye Star Wars. I grew up with you in the original trilogy of 77, 80 and 83 and loved you then. I cherish memories of that original trilogy. I suffered through every Star Wars film after that in the hopes that someone could 'capture the essence' of the original trilogy which was excellent story-telling and dangerous and heroic adventure among unlikely friends. In the Force Awakens. Rey, Poe, and Finn have chemistry but these characters need a worthy story-line.
The Last Jedi fails miserably in delivering an actual story and killed all my hope that Star Wars can be saved. The Resistance evading the First Order in space is not a sufficient plot. Little sub plots like trips to another planet to find the code-breaker completely fall flat. Rey's time on the island ... Luke Skywalker is a depressing mess, skulking about because he failed one pupil. Even Obi Wan Kenobi kept the faith despite Darth Vader.
No wonder Mark Hamill complained Skywalker's integrity was not upheld in Rian Johnson's depiction of his character. He actually said the Jedi should end? Come on now. That is sacrilege in this universe!
Although I had hopes for Rey, Poe and Finn in Force Awakens ... their dialogue didn't work in the Last Jedi. It was at times cheesy and elsewhere too simplistic. Really really disappointed. I drove home feeling sad .. which surprised me .. until I realized The Last Jedi is the last Star Wars I'll ever watch again.
Rian Johnson should not be writing/directing Star Wars, plain and simple.