While The Last Jedi isn’t the world-ending catastrophe that Star Wars fans who have termed its director “Ruin Johnson” have made it out to be, it’s also far from a satisfactory entry in the saga. It seemed that Rian Johnson was so desperate to make a unique contribution to the franchise that he made a Star Wars movie which doesn’t really feel like a Star Wars movie at all.
From Luke Skywalker’s bitter characterization to Princess Leia’s infamous Mary Poppins moment, a lot of scenes in The Last Jedi arrived as a crushing disappointment to fans who have followed this story and its characters since their childhood.
10 Poe Dameron Barbs General Hux With A “Your Mother” Joke
There are many cringeworthy attempts at humor in The Last Jedi, from the interminable cuteness of the Porgs to the mind-numbing “chrome dome” line during Captain Phasma’s death, so it’s fitting that the movie opens with a terrible joke.
As the First Order advances on the Resistance and Poe Dameron heroically prepares to take on their fleet alone, he cracks an awful “your mother” joke to tease General Hux.
9 Luke Tosses Away His Father’s Lightsaber
This moment can be seen as Rian Johnson tossing away the Star Wars rulebook. The director was intent on deconstructing the Star Wars myth and injecting it with his own voice, which would’ve been fine if he’d been hired to make something like Rogue One and not Episode VIII.
Johnson establishes early on that he’s not interested in fan service. After fans spent two years wondering what would happen when Rey gave Luke his father’s lightsaber, assuming Disney had some semblance of a plan, he just tossed it over his shoulder and moped off to go and milk an alien.
8 The Detour To Canto Bight
Like many a bad Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi takes an unnecessary second-act detour to a weird alien bar. In this case, it’s a casino on Canto Bight, the Star Wars equivalent of Monte Carlo.
The runtime of The Last Jedi is way overlong — it set a record as the longest Star Wars movie — and Rose and Finn’s trip to Canto Bight wasted a lot of time.
7 Admiral Ackbar’s Casual Death
Admiral Ackbar is one of the most beloved characters in the Star Wars universe. “It’s a trap!” is one of the franchise’s most iconic quotes, while Ackbar’s sharp leadership got the Rebel Alliance out of plenty of scrapes.
In The Last Jedi, Ackbar is killed off in such an astoundingly quick and undignified way that a lot of fans didn’t even realize it had happened.
6 Leia’s Force Flight
The original trilogy strongly hinted that Leia was Force-sensitive, like her connection with Luke at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Leia should’ve been a full-blown Jedi, or at least a competent Force user, by the time the sequel trilogy began. But in The Force Awakens, in order to play on nostalgia, she was instead put at the helm of a rebel force struggling against an evil empire run by one of her relatives in a black mask.
In The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson gave Leia her first on-screen use of the Force and it was painfully bad. After getting blasted out of her ship, she flew through space like Peter Pan to safety.
5 Luke Tried To Kill Ben Solo
In a series of Rashomon-esque accounts of the night Ben Solo brought Luke Skywalker’s Jedi academy to the ground, we learn that Luke sensed the dark side corrupting Ben’s soul and tried to kill him in his sleep to prevent him from blossoming into a Sith Lord (or something like a Sith Lord that J.J. Abrams gave a snazzy new name).
When Luke found out that Darth Vader, the evil, reprehensible dictator he despised, was his own father, he refused to fight him because he could see the good in him. But when his nephew began to exhibit dark side tendencies, Luke resorted straight to attempted murder.
4 DJ Betrays Finn And Rose
After meeting an unnamed hacker who goes by DJ, Finn and Rose take him to infiltrate the First Order’s fleet. He spends the whole journey talking about how he doesn’t take sides in wars and will easily change his allegiance for a bigger paycheck.
Then, Finn and Rose are surprised when DJ doesn’t commit to the Resistance and betrays them for the First Order. Viewers could see this twist coming from a million miles away.
3 Captain Phasma’s Death
The sheer badassery of Gwendoline Christie’s Star Wars villain Captain Phasma earned her comparisons to Boba Fett following her debut in The Force Awakens. Those comparisons turned out to be depressingly apt in The Last Jedi.
Just like Fett, Phasma was given an unceremonious death scene. What’s even worse about her demise is that it’s defined by Finn’s dreadful “chrome dome” line.
2 Snoke Is Really Easy To Kill
In addition to being a pale imitation of Emperor Palpatine, Supreme Leader Snoke was introduced as an immensely powerful Force user who managed to slip past Luke Skywalker and manipulate his nephew into joining the dark side.
However, in The Last Jedi, after Johnson refused to give fans any answers about Snoke (and effectively gave them no reason to care about him as a result), he revealed that he’s really easy to beat as Kylo Ren effortlessly chops him in half.
1 “Not Fighting What We Hate; Saving What We Love.”
For the most part, Rian Johnson introduced Rose Tico as one of the Star Wars universe’s most exciting new characters in The Last Jedi. But during the Battle of Crait, she stops Finn’s sacrifice that will save the Resistance.
She tells him, “That’s how we’re gonna win: not fighting what we hate; saving what we love.” That’s a really bad military strategy. No one ever won a war without fighting what they hate.
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