Just avarage action movie

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2018)

Lets face it: if you strip Star Wars them from this one, it becomes avarage action movie with unnecessary side storylines, avarage dialogue and under-the-bar character development.
If Episodes 4-6 had had unnecessary side storylines running in the back, they would have become worse movies.
Last jedi had moments where plot twists might have dealt a new surprising turn but in the end, the movie ended in cliffhanger anybody could have guessed. Only the death of *CENSORED* surprised me. Oh, and one character should have died, it would have been logical considering that that character cannot be in the next one.
Too many "close calls", heroes being saved by invisible magic bubble of narrative protection outside of which non-relevant characters just die. It makes no sense. I would have cut the side storyline "Finn and the mechanic" away and the movie would become actually better, or at least let Finn die like a hero and not ruin the moment with a dumb ass intervention.
Generally speaking, way too much action now. Do you know why the original episodes endure time and are old but gold: because their action has meaning. This meaning was not build up by having more action but by having slower pace moments between action scenes. Thats where you build up characters. The only "slow pace" in Last jedi was where Rey was in the island, yet even that felt like the stoy being forced to run where it should have just jogged. A
I dont mind that lore is broken a little: like gasoline becoming a problem or using hyperdrive as suicide weapon or a person with the force being way too powerful way too fast. Its just that those things were emphasized badly.