Brian

I am not sure why my review keeps being deleted (nothing at all inappropriate!). Here goes my third attempt (cut-and-paste from the last time). In brief, below is my opinion of TLJ. I really did not enjoy this movie at all; it is described as 'dividing the fans', but I actually think that the majority of movie goers did not like this film either. The main issues were: 1. The main plot was boring, the slow chase in space, as well as not making sense, was really dull. Increadibly dum and incomprensible descisions made on both the first order and rebel side (but mainly the first order). 2. As has been said many times, the Canto Bight side quest was pointless and not entertaining. 3. I really do not like what they did with Hux character, he went full clown in this movie. 4. Did not seem to fit well with the previous movie, I was expecting a trilogy but really these are three stand alone mediocre movies. 5. The main characters are really unlikable and some of the dialogue was just cringeworthy. I like Adam Driver and Kylo was the best of a bad bunch, but there was not much the cast could do with an awful script such as this. 6. Terrible, glaring, distracting plot holes (Holdo etc.), there are plot holes in all the star wars movies, but this was another, teeth grttingly, bad level. I am sure there are people who genuinely enjoyed this and that's great, for me though I found this so boring, annoying, and such a wasted opportununity that I was close to walking out of the cinema several times. As others have said, visually it is a great movie and the sound was good, but every other aspect was appalling. Rian Johnson is a talented director (I really enjoyed knives out) but this was the wrong movie for him and the fact that they clearly had little to no plan about how the overarching story of the new trilogy would work is just unbelievable given how much money went into this... sadly I think TLJ was so bad that Star Wars will never again be what it once was. Definitely a 1 star cinema experience for me unfortunately, I can't remember the last time I disliked a movie as much as this...

May not be to everyone's taste, but this was my type of movie. Oddly enough it reminded me in some ways of the horror movie 'auditon'. Overall, I definitely enjoyed this one, simple plot held together by some fantastic acting from Kurt Russell.

Better than TLJ, worse than TFA...

This movie flew under the radar when it was released in 2009 but it is seriously under rated. Really clever 'time travel' plot which works well held together by a strong performance from Melissa George. I rarely watch movies multiple times but I keep coming back to this one and noticing new details each time. Highly recommend!