Over 2,000 angry 1 star reviews can't stop me from liking this movie

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2020)

It has been 2 1/2 years since the Last Jedi Ruined Star Wars. Many of the reviews claim this to be a plot whole ridden, boring, incoherent poorly written mess.
And all the blame falls on Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kenndey (The second one makes zero sense, one executive can't ruin or make all the creative stories that ruin the movie for you)
I am not here to tell you this is the best Star Wars Movie or a Masterpiece, but I think it is quite a great enjoyable movie.
I think Rian Johnson directed and wrote a movie with beautiful cinematography, great character development, a thrilling story with unexpected turns. Along with Johnson many other people brought this film to life. Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, and especially Mark Hamill returned to the series and preformed just as well if not better as they did 40 years ago and Daisy Riddle, John Boyaga, Oscar Issac, and Adam Driver returned and gave Good performances (not through the roof, but not an abomination). The special effects brought it to life with superior technology to the last generation of films, but top notch for today.
******I don't expect anyone to read further than this***** (Not that I don't recommend it, but I personally don't read reviews this long, just right them)
I have know idea how long this review is and I don't want it to just be about what people complained about, but I think I need to rant about the ridiculous absurdities of many of the low nit picky complaints that people hold as legitimate complaints in their reviews of this movie. One thing that people held as truly running the movie was the uses of the force introduced as new in this movie. A common complaint is that the force is just magical and the creators of this new movie are "just making up force powers at this point". Some of these new powers introduced are a force connection between two people where they can transfer matter, physically touch and see each other, the ability to move your self though space, the power to survive in space, the ability of a force ghost to bring lightning from the sky, and the ability project your self across the galaxy and trick people into your appearance being real. The first problem with this is that fundamentally the force is a fictional made up element, that exists in a world that leans more towards fantasy than science fiction, therefore YES THE FORCE IS MAGICAL. Though these are problems that can be held against Star Wars as a whole. And that is fine you can not like the force. (There is sacrifice in that it is a giant plot convince that allows for things to happen that may seem like luck. But it is a sacrifice because it opened the door to a magical story that touches on basics of human ideals of what is truly good. And it has captured and continued to capture fans from around the world, and of all ages since 1977). We have no reason to think from previous that we know as an audience everything about the force, and there is no rule that you can't introduce new things, and it creates more creative freedom for the story teller to introduce previously unknown elements, and if they break previously establish rules I think that it is a worthy sacrifice for good story telling. Though the examples from earlier have some falsies they do in some case introduce some plot holes. There may be a gap between what we have seen before and what this movie displayed and there may be an unexplained reason that it was never used explore. That is the definition of a Plot Hole, it a hole that can be filled in the future. None of these break any clearly established rule made by the years and years of Star Wars media, and the creators of a high budget film should not have to hold to the most minute detail reviled by some guy in one line of a book or a comic book. (To be fair I am a big fan of material beyond the film and it does not bother me). The reason for Kylo and Rey is establish a clear reason for its origin (Snoke connected them). It is clear establishment of previous movies that the force can connect people across great distances, in this movie the degree was greater and it establishes there is a physically connection this time around. Though we have no reason to believe that this can't happen in a stronger occurrence and that this is rare occurrence that was seldom used in the past. Kylo and Rey are established as very strong and Snoke is established as even stronger. Leia is a beloved character that has clearly established that she has a strong connection to the force (she is the daughter of Darth Vader, the chosen one), and there is not reason we should not believe she pursued a stronger connection to the force over the past 30 years. As for how it is portrayed I agree it looks like superman, it clearly could have handled that better. As for the ability for her to survive in space, I don't think it has little to do with the force, it is a false assumption people have that space kills you instantly, and we have no reason to believe she was out there for that long. In the movies it is a new development that force ghost have the ability to connect with the physical world. The movie does not explain why that is or why it does not happen very often. This is a plot hole, but I think there is room for that to be filled. A force projection it what people have come to call Luke's manifestation on Crait, and it is establish to be a rare power that require a lot of concentration, and for Luke it lead to death (it took all his energy) and I don't think this was the best time for Luke's death and maybe there could have been more to tell with Luke Skywalker. Though just because this power is unestabilhed it does not make it bad, it does not mean you can't like it or think that it cheapens the story. Another plot hole that is really truly a nit pick is the bombs that blow up the dreadnought in the very first scene, they fall in space and blow up the ship. The movie offers no explanation other than that they are all stuck togther as if they are magnetic. An explenation on how these ships and bombs worked would have worked against the movie and is worse than no explanation. Poe yells "I know everyone I am talking to knows this, but the bombs are magnetic and if I was trying to command an attack I would just say bombs." Holdo's hyperspace ramming of the First Order capital ship is some thing we have never seen, but from the movie we don't know the difficulty of what happened and even if it made no sense what so ever she made a sacrifice which if you where paying attention you are supposed to see that see is a hero and not just a jerk. These critisims spread through the whole movie and people have dragged this mentality onto the next movie also.
I love this movie I am not going to deny that I love it. I love all the Star Wars movie. Many of the other reviews claim this to me poorly written movie with no character development. I just do not see that. I think that Rian Johnson wrote a great movie. It is complex on many levels. The most valid controversy in this movie the portrayal of Luke Skywalker. I understand that people did not like it, Mark Hamill himself wasn't crazy about it, but I like. I he is a broken hero, he has become a legend on and off the screen, this movie humanizes him. He failed and decides to run from his failure and guilt (heroes do not always have to be right). The Force Awakens established that it affected out three main heroes, Luke being the worst (He ran away to never be found). But why did he leave a map, I think it is clear his motives and ideas changed from the time he left to the time Rey found him. When he reveals the truth of the night Kylo turned he admitted his weakness, he is human and that is powerful. Though he is wrong in his willingness to help. When Yoda shows up he learns that faluire is not the point where you give up, but the point to learn the most and he uses all his strength to save the resistance.
Rey and Kylo I think are the weakest of all the arcs in this movie. Though it is not absence or all bad there is just some faults, overall I like it. I feel like the dialogue and tension is a little awkward, but for the most part I look past that. Though on re watch I don't think romantic tension is completely out of the blue, I still think it is weird. They are conflicted and on opposites sides thinking they can both get the other to join. Rey individually is lost and scared. She seeks answers and Luke fails at that, but that does not ruin her desire to do good. Though she takes a dangerous road that is unlikely to succeed straight into darkness. Kylo is conflicted and his growth in this movie is breaking free of everything and trying not to be controlled. His defiance of evil authority and opens the door to new ideas. He kills Snoke (A wonderful twist). I did not expect it.
Poe, he is very likable and we love him as a audience, and at the begin we see Holdo as a jerk, but by the end we she that it was Poe's fault he was a hotshot that did not understand his leaders and was not open listening. Holdo taught him a lesson that he learned in the end. Though we are to see that Leia sees him as a future leader with lots of potential.
Finn was running away he was scared in the beginning of the movie he held that he just wanted revenge and lived in fear. Rose changed that view in his mind that he was a hero to the resistance not just an enemy of first order. Though Roses line is cheesy "save what you love not kill what you hate". This is what Finn need to see and her she saved them and then he saved her. Though the kiss was thrown in almost out of nowhere. I does not work and it is weird because he does not feel the same way.
This movie is not absent of substance the plot lines, and characters draw me in, and the action and the way it looks is great. I don't think that the Kanto Byte was a weird sub plot that was a waist. It was successful in character development. Also this movie is not political or pushing an evil agenda.