Painfully Bad

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2017)

This is NOT Star Wars. The script was painfully bad and the entire film felt like a soulless Disney cash grab. In what feels like a wild attempt to differentiate itself, The Last Jedi borders on being unrecognizable as a StarWars installment. Major questions from The Force Awakens are completely neglected and character development takes a backseat to explosions and jarring "twists" that don't surprise but rather leave you feeling frustrated and confused. The main problem seems to be that The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi feel completely incompatible with one another, as if the directors were in a fued. All of the questions posed by The Force Awakens are deliberately neglected throughout the film minus a few. The 2.5 hour run time seemed fine before going in as it was assumed the extra time was needed to go deep into the backstory of many of the characters and questions posed by The Force Awakens. Instead it was wasted on pointless subplots and uninteresting characters. It was difficult to sit through the entire film and remain interested. There were also some bizarre moments that completely ruin the ability to take this movie seriously: flying space Leia, green alien breastmilk drinking Luke, tossing the saber over the shoulder, snokes pointless and unrealistic fate. All of these things coupled with the totally out of place humor make this an unenjoyable film. The humor robs the audience of any chance to take the film, The Force or the Jedi, and the villains seriously. Not to mention, it usually misses the mark and is not genuinely funny. It feels forced and out of place. Like a constant self mockery that borders on deliberate trolling of the serious mythos embraces by the fans. 1/10 because they had an easy lay up from Abrams to make a great movie, wasted Mark Hamil, Andy Serkis and Gwendoline Christie (she gets about 2 mins of screen time) and created a soulless and fundamentally bad film with a budget of $300 million+. The interest in the new Star Wars franchise is now significantly reduced and hope for Episode 9 is bleak. Wait to see this one on Netflix.