Before heaping a lot of negativity on you, I'll say what i liked about The Last Jedi: Rey came from nothing. Everyone can use the Force. Throwing away nonsense ideas about destiny is great, and I hope they stay away from it.
The porgs were cute.
That's all I got.
The plot is the strangest thing. The fact that a star destroyer can't simply destroy a transport ship is ridiculous. And what it sets up is 2 ships that just slowly follow each other for almost the entire movie in a straight line. How exciting. I'm guessing this is supposed to create a feeling of dread and oncoming doom (???), but I never felt that, because the characters never show it.
This sets up is the arc of Poe Dameron, which doesn't make any kind of sense. He is put in a situation where, with his knowledge, there is no plan, and they have to find a way out or they will die within a day. So he tries to do something about it. It ends with him failing and Leia tells him he shouldn't always act the hero. What? Whaaaat? Laterhe ''learns'' from it and gives up on shooting the cannon. Which would have killed them all if Luke Skywalker didn't show up to save them, which Poe didn't know anything about beforehand. Star Wars, a film series about hero's and adventure tells you to just sit on your ass, give up and wait untill you get killed.
This plot sets up another storyline, that of Finn and uhm, some woman. I didn't even know thát was supposed to be a romantic relationship untill they kissed. It's not that they didn't have chemistry, it's that they didn't even have anything to make chemistry with. Even Walter White couldn't make anything with this shit. Then it ends with a fight between Finn AKA ''How-did-you-make-this-guy-boring'' and Phasma, AKA ''who?''. The entire subplot was so boring, and completely without purpose in terms of plot or character. There's some nice ideas about war profiteering but it glanced over so quickly and feels tacked on.
Leia is boring. I didn't like her in The Force Awakens, and I didn't like her in this. Where is the Leia from A New Hope, that tells everyone their rescue operation sucks? Where is the Leia from Return of the Jedi who chokes the life out of Jabba the Hutt? And why does she fly around like superman in this?
Maybe the worst part of it all is the cinematography. It's not so bad that Rian Johnson pulls random dutch angles out of his ass or shakes his camera like he has parkinsons, but it is so boring. Compare this to The Force Awakens, where the camera sweeped around elegantly. It was exciting and adventurous, and it captured the spirit of Star Wars. In the last Jedi, the camera doesn't move much. It's just there. It films the things that happen.
Still, people saying it's worse than the prequels need to be punished by having to watch the prequels again.
