Such disappointment and an overly bloated movie with useless scenes

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2018)

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi was a severe disappointed. A two year wait and anticipation was wasted with missed opportunities and plain bad writing.
Because so many things are awful and made no sense at times, I'll start with what I did like.
The special effects didn't disappoint. They were of Stars Wars quality and then some. Great colour throughout the film.
The opening sequence of where the Resistance is evacuating their base was awesome. Beautiful action sequence and well done. There was one problem where a bomber released its bombs and the movie completely forgets the laws of gravity but I'll ignore this since there's not supposed to be any sound in space.
Lightsaber battle between Rey, Kylo and Snoke's elite guards was another high point in the movie and should have had a lot more lightsaber battles. Remember it's a Star Wars movie guys.
Now for all the bad.
Humour was overly used and made power characters look like fools, namely General Hux.
Cat and mouse game between the Resistance and the First Order was tremble. A sequence that should have been 10 minutes lasted three quarter of the movie. Bad script and writing.
The Canto Bight scenes burn my eyes. How this sequence got green lighted is beyond me. The movie could have completely done without this part. Benicio del Toro, a talented actor got completely wasted.
And speaking about wasted characters, nearly all was put to extremely poor use whilst others were completely wasted. Wasted ones include Supreme Leader Snoke, Captain Phasma, Finn, Rose, Leia and Luke.
This whole movie was to deal with Luke Skywalker as he is now and training Rey to be the future. His character was a complete 180 from what he once was. His character was not done justice at all. But his performance was still great to watch despite the bad story and is still probably the best part of the movie.
The great Leader of the First Order was a complete joke in this movie. The set-up was great in the last movie which was to pay off in this and in the future film but like so many things that were set up by the last movie the director of this one just flush it all down the toilet.
This movie as a standalone would be considered a good one but completely abandoning the set up from the last one made this movie suffer immensely and is probably the worse in the franchise. Bad writing and storytelling from director Rian Johnson has sealed this. What Kathleen Kennedy was thinking when this script was green lighted is beyond me.
There wasn't anything to hook the audience into seeing the next episode.