Disney! NO!!!

Rating: 3/10 (17 January 2018)

I'm one of the few who thought The Force Awakens was incredible. Even though it was very similar to A New Hope, I do think they got the balance just right. J.J. Abrams managed to not only inject the perfect amount of humour in to the film, but he was also faithful to the fans as the whole film felt like it fit into the Star Wars universe really well. Finn was an interesting character and how he came from being a Stormtrooper to helping the Rebels was great to watch. That's why TFA is my favourite SW film of all time (followed by Empire and A New Hope).
But, The Last Jedi! OH MY GOODNESS! What on earth's gone on there! I suppose I'd better do a good and bad list, but let's just say the good list ain't that long!!!!
GOOD
Kylo Ren was great in pretty much every scene. I thought Adam Driver was brilliant throughout the whole movie, showing his struggles as he tries to please Snoke, and then decides to take over in charge!
The fight scene with Kylo, Rey and the Praetorian Guard were done very well. Excellent and entertaining.
From that fight scene onwards the movie did improve somewhat.
BAD
Complete step down from The Force Awakens (my favourite of all SW films). It lacked that Star Wars feel with no new aliens to connect with.
The casino world was so over-the-top it was awful. It felt a bit like a mixute of The Fifth Element some of the scenes from The Hobbit movies where stuff was just chucked at the screen to make it exciting and pad out a weak story. Those creatures running off the track and then crashing through windows or on vehicles was just too much. It didn't add to the story and just looked plain silly.
The training scenes just dragged and dragged! It seemed like they had taken all the bad bits from Empire and just made them worse! Oh what a shame. I think they could have probably cut out an hour or so from the movie and then it would have been rather entertaining.
Fin was hardly in it, other than for comedy effect, and as he was my favourite from The Force Awakens that was a real shame!
Snoke, who could have been such an interesting character, as he had bags of attitude and power, is killed off all of a sudden, leaving Kylo in charge, who we all know can't beat Rey in a battle.
Rose - what's the point of her character, other than just a no point subplot that ends up not making any sense.
As someone else said 'You can't weaponise lightspeed'! Watching the last rebel ship go into light speed and cut through Snoke's ship was stupid!
The First Order, who after TFA were slightly decimated, are now all of a sudden in control of everything! How'd that happen?!?!?!
The First Order chase the remaining rebels but can't catch up with them, so it's just a slow chase through space!!! WHAT?!! How about send a couple of ships at light speed and stop just ahead of the rebels? Or, how about cutting the rebels space ship in half by light speeding through it? HUH!?!??!
Porgs! No point other than merchandise for Disney! Chewie should have eaten them all!
And whilst we're on Chewie, what did he do other than punch down a door to find Luke?
And Luke is no more.
And Poe is just some kid who likes shooting things.
And EVERYTHING that left you wanting to know more at the end of TFA has been answered with a whimper!
Rey's parents? Could they be someone important? NO, they're dead in the desert!
Poe destroys all the canons on the Dreadnaught without so much as a blink of an eye
Leia. The scene where she dies in space I thought was a fitting end, and would have been a nice finishing scene for her. But no, they bring her back like the Statue Of Liberty floating through space! WHAT? COME ON, THIS IS RIDICULOUS!"
And as for the call centre joke at the start, well that's where I knew it was all going the wrong way. J.J. would have made that work. Rian made it look stupid.
Man I could go on for months!
I give it 3 stars because Kylo was great, the start of the battle scene on Crait looked good, and I liked the way Benicio Del Toro portrayed DJ.