Crestfallen when I left the cinema

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2019)

Posting this review about 22 months after seeing Episode 8 in the cinema but I remember how crestfallen I felt at just how poor the movie was, it was a very similar feeling to how I felt on seeing The Phantom Menace for the first time.
How could Star Wars go so wrong? Every dangling plot thread from the previous movie was either ignored or handled in an utterly underwhelming way or in a manner that was disrespectful to the franchise. The plot made little sense, the action looked good but again made little sense, the space chase was dull in the extreme, the character development went into reverse, the movie timeline made no sense whatsoever, the comedy fell flat throughout and to top it off the movie manages to undercut some of the previous entries in the franchise which was a pretty shocking failure.
Rian Johnston's a talented director, his work on Breaking Bad was amazing but between his work on Looper and The Last Jedi I can only conclude he doesn't 'get' sci-fi and for the sake of everyone involved needs to steer well clear of it in future.