Good, but still flawed

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2018)

So, I enjoyed The Last Jedi. I felt it to be a fresh take on the Star Wars universe. While nowhere near as good as ANH or ESB, as a Star Wars film, there's a lot of good about this movie. But I found more problems with it as a film than I did as a part of the Star Wars franchise.
THE GOOD: The writing and dialogue are spectacular. I really liked the character interactions between Rey and Kylo, and I liked the morals in TLJ. Forget the past and move forward. I think that's a good lesson that even adults can learn from.
I understand that people had problems with the way Luke was handled, but I thought he was handled just fine. The scene where he throws his lightsaber on Crait makes sense canonically, because Ben (AKA, Obi-wan) told him that Lightsabers are "a weapon from a more civilized age", but Luke no longer believes that lightsabers are civilized.
The effects are probably the best part about this film. I find this movie more visually impressive than anything previous.
THE BAD: Some of these problems are minor, but they still bugged me. I had problems with the film's extremely forced humor. There were some jokes that worked and others that didn't. Overall, the humor really took me out of the movie.
But I also think this film had one of the funniest visual gags in any Star Wars film (involving some evil ironing).
The casino scene was also pretty dumb. It really just felt like they were padding for time with that scene.
This is my advice: Don't listen to the whiny, hard-to-please "fans" and see this one for yourself.