Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Jonkykong — 21 Dec 2017

This is not Star Wars and more like a Saturady Night Live skit. Ha! I honestly thought the opening scene was just a fancy advert for a phone company when Po was messing with the Empire pretending he had a bad connection.

I waited in vain and then desprate hope that some flashy logo would appear and then the REAL movie would begin. This is a gut wrenching movie to watch. To witness that the people in charge have so little understanding about what makes this franchise great fills me with fear for the future.

To feel that they have so little respect for the inteligence of the audience that they think re-hashing the old scenes and dialogue with a few cute fury characters is enough to warant calling this a new addition to the saga.

This movie shamelessly rips off Empire and Return both in the script and visually. The other elements feel rushed and thrown together with boring and pointless character arcs and actions. By any normal movie metric this movie is weak.

But the fact that it was so setup for a logical and interesting progression from the Force Awakens it seems like they went out of their way not to pursue any of the threads left by the last movie. The reaction of the public hopefully will be listened to by the studio.

We can only hope that Rian Johnson does not direct any more star wars movies.