Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Kulkuri — 01 Jan 2018

The Last Jedi is wrong on so many different levels that I don't even know where to start. The plot is bad and features heavy agenda pushing. Please, don't go to see this film. It will ruin your perception of what the Star Wars is about.

The good things are easy to list: Amazing visual effects, good soundtrack (albeit it heavily borrows from the existing old Star Wars music) and high production values. For those three things I have to give some points on 0 to 10 scale. But everything else is just betrayal of the highest level.

Then there is the bad stuff: Actors are dull and uninteresting. Instead of demonstrating the content of their characters, they've been reduced to nothing but their external appearances. There are absolutely pointless scenes like the space casino thing which accomplishes nothing. The "sacrifices" people make here are utterly pointless and stupid. The film is way too long. And numerous other things other reviews surely will mention but I try to keep this spoiler-free and short.

This and the previous film are utterly non-canon to me. They do not follow the Star Wars Expanded Universe well enough to make me interested. To me Star Wars is dead and Disney killed it. At least I still have my books, comics, games and the original trilogy.