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Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2017)

Star Wars the last Jedi has been a hotly anticipated film for me. I love star wars like most people and could not wait to see it.....Imagine my utter disappointment at this film. I spent TWO hours AND THIRTY MINUTES seeing something that sort of looked like the thing I loved but the characters were some warped versions of classic characters. I did not enjoy the story and the overall feel of this film was very stop start in terms of the plot. So let's get into what I hated and what was eh okay....ish.
I'll start with what I loved. From a technical aspect this film is great. It's shot really well and has great use of camera angles, lighting and visual effects. There are some great little practical effects in the film that really help cement the Star Wars convention of the use of practical effects.
The Music in this, as in all the other episodes, is fantastic. It is so good to hear John William's score and shows him to be still the master composer we all love. The music took me into the story as well as It could.
Mark Hamill deserves a medal for his acting as I really loved the way he portrayed Luke regardless of how stupid Luke's story arc is. The late Carrie Fischer gave a brilliant performance and the BEST NEWS EVER....YODA IS BACK...as a cameo.
Okay those are the things I loved now onto the biggest let down of this movie...THE PLOT AND THE 22000 SUBPLOTS!!! There is the main plot with Luke and his training of Ray. This is supposed to be the main one however we get very little training from Luke and Ray just basically knows everything anyway. Honestly she is so overpowered the training is not at all necessary and most of it is just Luke saying "the Jedi must end" and that the force is bad.

Luke in this film is haggard, old and a completely different person to the one in episode 6. I won't give spoilers but it completely ruined the character for me and I felt angry at the way he was wrote. Ray as well is such a blank slate that I found her to have no character traits or development really. She learns nothing, and is even more powerful with no real effort, by the end of the movie.
The plot with Finn is just, in the end, pointless and the casino setting that Finn and generic minority girlfriend #1 goes too looks basically like and casino in Vegas...It is just not Star Wars. They basically have to find a hacker to hack a first order ship. This hacker is so obviously going to betray them that when it does come it made me shout DUHHHH in the movie theatre.
The other subplot is with Poe and the rebels trying to outrun a first order fleet at the slowest rate possible. This plot really slows the movie to a halt and just infuriated me by all the plot holes and stupid things that characters did. Poe doesn't trust the captain of the ship outrunning the first order and asks what she is doing. What's the plan? For some reason she tells his to get fuc**d and this leads Poe to take over the ship because of a lack of trust. WHY NOT INFORM YOUR CREW!!!!
The way all of these plots and characters work do not make sense in terms of the movie and in terms of the larger Star Wars universe. That's the big problem I have with this film. I'm not alone. Even Mark Hamill said it was not "his Luke Skywalker" and I just this everyone miscalculated in terms of plot and characters. The kicker is its such a long film and did not grip me or keep me emotionally invested for the two and a half hours.
I think the script writers tried too hard with this film and as Grand Master Yoda said "Do or do not there is no try"