No excuse makes up for this.

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2017)

I have used IMDB for close to 10 years but today is the first day I have had an account and the first review I have ever given, The Last Jedi is the reason for this and its not a good thing.
This was the film that my group of mates had bought tickets for 3 months in advance for opening night.... we spoke about TLJ at least once a week up until the day we found ourselves in the cinema finally ready to continue our love for Star Wars, as the opening slow crawl made its way across the screen the crowd erupted, this was the moment that anyone from ages 16 through to 50 had been waiting for.....
2.5 hours later the cinema was silent, no cheers, no claps... nothing.
Welcome to Star Wars: The Last Jedi
TFA was a good start to getting this trilogy up and running, everyone knows and understands that it is essentially an exact copy of episode 4 but I accepted this as it was a good way to get back into what star wars is about, everyone saw how The Phantom Menace was received and I thoroughly believe they were trying to avoid this by creating ep 4 again. People complained as always but in general it was a strong base to build a new empire upon.
In Rogue One they moved away from the classic Star Wars model but still kept some of the original feeling. This was a fantastic film that felt like Star Wars but at the same time was different to anything we had seen before and should be seen as one of the best Star Wars films ever made.
We were told not to expect your classic Star Wars film but TLJ is not just a bad Star Wars movie but it is a bad movie any way you look at it.
Luke is meant to be the strongest Jedi to ever exist, this is the guy that turned Vader back to the light, he defeated countless enemies and armies, he helped take on and defeat Abaloth. But your telling me that this same character saw the small chance of evil in Ben Solo so straight up tried to murder him without any further reasoning.....he then created a force image that was apparently so straining that it caused him to fade away and die.....
This is an insult to the character of Luke and an insult to Mark Hamill.
This movie contains an entire adventure to a casino world that is completely irrelevant to the progression of the story, they literally could have cut it out completely and no one would have known any difference.
By the end of the film you will completely forget the Finn and Po even exist, their characters have literally 0 Progression other than Po taking out every surface turret on a fully shielded dreadnaught....by himself.... with an X wing.....seriously...
Finn is just useless and is there just to have a dumb relationship with an diversity character.
Leia is beyond dumb, she literally gets shot into the vacuum of space, seems to be completely frozen then decides to wake up and superman back into the ship.... Why didn't they have her light speed through the dreadnaught cruiser? and give her a fitting end. Now we are going to probably have her killed off screen which will be stupid.
They brought in two dumb animal like creatures purely for making money off screen, both the ice cats and weird orange bird thing have no value in the film and are there for merchandising only.
Oh but wait I'm sure they will save it with who Snoke and Rey's parents are right?
Wrong, Snoke is a no one who gets killed by Kylo halfway through the film with not explanation into his character.... and Rey's parents are also no ones who dumped her then died on the same planet.
I honestly believe that everyone that writes professional reviews is being paid off by Disney, because there is no possible way that this film is an 7.9 when every single user review is below a 5 and in most cases between 1-3.
I hope that Rian Johnson is dumped after this film because what he has created is beyond belief and is a big screw you to anyone that has supported the saga.
Good luck to everyone watching this film and I hope you make it through.