Did Disney pay critics? This Trilogy is worse than the prequels

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

I went in to this film with no hype towards it, I have kept away from reviews and spoilers and theories. I came out and was openly saying "I did not like it." This was the first time I have seen a Star Wars film in the cinema and came out saying that. With TFA second viewing I thought it was rubbish and a CGI copy of a New Hope.
This one takes place a few hours or days after TFA. The resistance are continuing the fight against the First Order. Rey is trying to get Luke to train her. Kylo Ren is still a whiny emo kid.
2 Characters go on an "away mission" which is boring and rather forced on to give them something to do. Like I said Kylo Ren is just a whiny emo kid, but he gets that from his Grandfather. Wasn't impressed by the acting of the actress who played Rey, again. The plan the First Order has is dumb, Ade Edmondson is on the bridge of the main ship, which I can not take serious in a serious role, due to his face and facial expressions due to his comedy tv programs.
This wastes no end of talent as well like Andy Serkis,Gwendoline Christie, Benicio del Toro and Laura Dern just to name a few. Not only are the actors wasted but the characters are wasted as well in some cases.
It feels like some characters have done a full 180 in a matter of hours as well, there is a scene where a character is looking at screen with sadness because of the amount of lives have just been lost. Then in a few scenes later, that character is "communicating with a bad guy" who is targeting the area the other character and a bunch of other characters are. Now instead of that character telling them to clear the area, the character just continues to "stare." Well done for saving lives or at least trying.
There are elements of "comedy" in the film, at one point I thought Jar Jar might appear just add more "comedy." They did not go down well in the cinema I saw it in. I will say one or two did make me smile, not laugh though.
I did learn something from this film, you can become a jedi in a weekend course.
The story is dull and slow. The writing isnt much better, the acting is overall meh, the 2 new leads, good comes off as wooden, bad comes off whiny.
I did like Mark Hamil's performance, even though I did not think Luke would be like that and neither did Mark Hamill "I fundamentally disagree with every choice for Luke in the Last Jedi."
Can the director be blamed for this? yes, but, it is not 100% his fault, its J.J. Abrams fault, he created all these new characters that have some sort of mystery around them and he knew he could not come up with a satisfying reveal for them, so backed away....Where did we see that before??? Cough - Lost. So not only has he ruined 1 franchise beginning with Star he has ruined 2.
Disney should've come up with a solid story that makes sense and is fun, they have a heck of a lot of great (NOW) NON-CANON stuff ti take "inspiration" from. But no. They should've decide how to use the old and new characters better and integrate them together better instead it feels like the new characters are forced at you and going " these are good like them" instead you don't get invested in them as characters and dont care about them. The old characters you do care about because you know them from BETTER MOVIES.
So Disney have currently made 3 Star Wars films. I liked 1 which is ROGUE ONE! The other 2 SUCK!!! I am so glad I did not go to the multiplex cinema and went and supported my local indie cinema which cost over half the price less than the multiplex.