A Sloppy Mess Insulting To My Childhood

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2017)

The worst thing I can say about the film is I nearly walked out of it, had it not been a Star Wars film I would have.
Taking my Star Wars goggles off, to review the film as just a sci-fi film, does not give it pass marks. Even if you had no love affair with the Star Wars universe The Last Jedi is still a bad film.
Very poor dialogue, acting and pacing destroys the film before we get to the implausible core of the movie. Star Wars was always about the audience connection with the lead character's, caring about there predicament, with The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi we simply do not care about them. This is a culmination of poor casting choices, weak script and poor acting which is much more evident in The Last Jedi due to its slower pace and longer dialogue sections.
The directing of the film is very sloppy with much of the movie just an implausible chase. The side quests do not add anything to the film and some of them are totally irrelevant to the story, feeling like film padding just to up the run time.
Then there is the plot holes, non expansion of the universe, the terrible use of Luke and completely avoiding the questions film goers had from previous films.
Critics said that this film tied up the loose ends and had surprising turns, not the film I watched. It was very predictable and the pacing actually made it boring in the middle section.
Going back to the plot, the following really annoyed me (spoilers):
The Dreadnought/ Star Destroyer chasing a Rebel Cruiser being the main premise of the film. Would it not have been more plausible to hyper jump in front of it or attack it with fighters, the supposedly faster Cruiser never actually gained any distance through the course of the film.
Snoke, who is he? We never found out. What we did find out is that he was not that menacing and for all his power to see the dark/light conflict within Kylo, he did not see the light saber about to get lit up beside him?
Leia, the Mary Poppins scene was laughable, the point I thought about leaving my seat. It looked as if it was done on a wire, the idea she could survive the vacuum of space and somehow power herself like superman back into a spaceship was just too far.
Luke, killing him off, why? No reason too, Carrie Fisher is dead, killing off the last member of the original Trilogy does not make any sense. An expansion of Luke's story after the destroying of his Jedi Academy could have been used not only in this film but future one's, there was so much more to tell. Why give us a glimpse into his life post Return Of The Jedi and then end it before we get to know him again.
The fact Rian Johnson has the green light to direct more Star Wars movies could be the end of the franchise for true Star Wars fans, It does not look good. Gareth Edwards with Rogue One showed us an expansive Star Wars with a darker feel which I thought was amazing, exactly what was needed. To have the trilogy films being churned out like Transformer films by Disney is going to kill the Star Wars I loved.