Don't have any high expectations

Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2017)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is nothing like you would expect, and not in a good way.
As a movie in general I think it was good, it's kind of comparable to Guardians of the Galaxy which was entertaining. However as a Star Wars movie I thought this was disappointing.
The cinematography and the effects of TLJ were outstanding, but the storytelling was extremely off! There were too many subplots that didn't add anything to the movie, subplots that in the end didn't matter because everyone who was interesting dies! And they die without getting any backstory or explanation. New characters are added while we don't get to know more about the already existing ones. There were no plot twists, new discoveries and barely no answers to the previous film (TFA). When the movie had opportunities to do something outstanding or go out of the comfort zone they didn't take the chance. There were a few moments where something unexpected happens, for example when Kylo kills Snoke and this continues with Rey and Kylo teaming up in a fight, which was the best part of the movie if you ask me. The entire movie was build up with Kylo and Rey considering turning to the other side and when they had the chance to dive deeper into this it didn't happen, instead Kylo/Rey go back to the same side as before and nothing new is added. Not to forget that the main villain, who is one of the strongest with the force, is now killed and didn't even get the chance to explain himself neither do we know who he is. Rey is during the entire movie trying to find out who her parents are, but we end up knowing that they were nobody, just nobody. Finn was on the edge of killing himself by doing something that he thinks will safe the resistance, which would have been something really unexpected, but instead they took the safe turn and the new girl Rose stops him and suddenly kisses him afterwards (without hinting that they are into each other). Leila could have died in space but she turned into Supergirl and is in a coma for 70% of the movie. Luke is so OOC that he for a split second thinks of killing his own nephew while he is asleep (seriously, the Luke Sky Walker...?) and he doesn't even uses his lightsaber in a fight and dies by using the force to make a hologram of himself.
The movie literally ends with the same situation we had at the end of TFA, only worse.
Oh and by the way, in the first act at least four scenes ended with the sentence "Where is Rey/Finn/Poe/Leia?". Very clever.
It saddens me that people nowadays accept films like these only because of the hype, the action sequences and the visuals, but they don't look at the storytelling. Don't force yourself to think a movie is good when it isn't, even when it's Star Wars and you want to love it.
People have told me that I shouldn't have had too high expectations for this film, but to me that means that I shouldn't expect SW to be a well written adventure? An adventure that is different from the other superhero/sci-fi movies we see these days? Is that what Star Wars has become and I should just accept it? No way.
Please everyone, open your eyes!
Star Wars: The Last Jedi has everything that action/sci-fi's have these days, great action and visuals but no indepth storyline. It's a 6 stars for me.