The Last Jedi Is a Story of Optimism in Cynical Times

Well said.

I personally had NO problem with Luke's characterisation. It actually made sense for me that he was a hermit and that he displayed a sense of angst and conflict over his nephew's disturbing nature. I was only a little disappointed that we never got to see a reunion between him and the other OT characters.

However, the stupid, overly childish humour (an apparent spacecraft being revealed to be an iron *sigh* which was a fourth-wall breaking joke straight out of Spaceballs, a drunk rodent dressed up in a tuxedo, and one of the droids doubling for a slot machine), the dull slow-mo hyperspace chase plot, bland and personality-free characters like Holdo who seem to have been inserted simply to make political points (pink hair is NOT a character trait), Leia somehow surviving in deep space, narrative cul-de-sacs like Snope being killed-off and the DJ subplot going nowhere, an overly prosaic approach to what should be a wondrous universe (i.e. Canto Blight being a very literal double for Monte Carlo), and Kylo Ren's increasing descent into Hate Sink incel territory (another example of Rion Johnson putting his need to wear his politics on his sleeve ahead of the interests of the actual storytelling), and thus no compelling central villain (since Snope was dead, and Kylo was simply a snivelly brat), were among the reasons why this Star Wars entry falls flat (despite some mostly decent visuals and competent filmmaking for the most part). None of which, of course, justifies the abuse that certain actors (especially Kelly Marie Tran and John Boyega, who I thought were both actually rather good in this, despite the poor material they had to work with during the Canto Blight scenes), were subjected to online.