Kill the past. Star Was has gone once and for all.

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2017)

So I've seen The Last Jedi and I must say apart from some great Star Wars action the storyline and character development is basically non-existent.
I am game with the ever-repeating "we need to get inside the DeathStar/ShieldOnEndor/PlanetCannon/SpaceShip but while the good episodes made that story work through tempo and substantial acting, this here is a sugar-coated ride through Disneyland. Lots of dramatic announcement, a few highlights packed in average coating and once the ride is over, nothing remains.
The biggest failure in this movie named The Last Jedi is the utter non-development and complete lack of training/insight of the main character Rey. Is she a Jedi? No. Will she ever become one? Well, no. Two movies in, she can all of a sudden let some stones fly, anyone remember how hard this was on Luke when he was trained? Other than that she still has no clue about basically anything, especially handling a lightsaber. In light of this, the Jedi are truly dead. And that is not even the beginning of the Jedi controversy in a film that utterly destroys the entire idea as well as the character that is Luke Skywalker.
Difficult as well to go into all the abysmal plot-holes, i.e. how a single X-Wing and a few bomblets take out an entire destroyer, the few intriguing characters built up in TFA killed in a whiff, pointless and shallow side-stories and the only mystery of the main character deconstructed within a second. If we had delivered such a joke of a script at the School Of Arts we would have been thrown out the very next day.
Add to that some Star-Wars untypical but Disney-Hollywoodish point- and endless suspension dragging, lack of tempo, entirely unrelated location-fillers and moments of sheer boredom. This is ramshackle film-making by an entirely un-inspired and un-talented merchandise-executor instead of a proper director like Empire's Kershner or the StarTrek/StarWars rejuvenating J.J. This film left me confused, angry and uncaring which is an immense effect seeing what Star Wars should do to me as a viewer and fan. But then, the entire air of this movie adheres precisely to the main line and what all young millennial viewers continuously drone on: Kill the past.
Exactly, kill it once and for all: Kill craftsmanship, kill logical reality, hard work, dirt and dust as well as any tangible experience and sacrifice them all on the altar of superficial CGI and app-like fastfood solutions to thrive merchandise instead of delivering a lasting saturation. And that is the entire problem of this movie and of today: Substance has gone, quick and superficial frisson has replaced the real experience. The makers of this film have succeeded, they have effectively killed the past to excuse their abysmal lack of depth. Just like their smartphone-educated audience does every day and is even grateful for that.
And so Star Wars dies...with thunderous applause.