With the movie out on Blu-Ray (and before that digital download), I wanted to adjust my opinion on the movie.
As a stand alone movie (outside of the Star Wars franchise), its good, not great but good. Unlike the original trilogy, I don't think this movie will stand the test of time. I think also the rush to push out movies every year has impacted the quality of the story telling. Troubling news regarding the Solo movie confirms this.
Here's some of the issues I have TLJ specifically.
Holdo's actions, while Leia was in a coma:
I can see not telling Poe about her plans when he confronted her, but its horrible that a leader, any leader would have their crew think all hope is lost, and they're going to die, after an agonizing run away from the enemy. I think a broadcast of hope, saying they're planning on sending small ships to sneak away is better then leaving people to think they'll die shortly.
Ok, so she decides to stay on the ship to give the rebels a chance to make a run for it, why couldn't a droid do that? Also if she's planning on going down with the ship, why not blast into Snoke's ship sooner giving the rebels a better chance of sneakig off. A broadcast to Hux that they'd rather die crashing into Snoke's ship rather then die a slow death may help convey the idea of trying to fool the First Order
Luke Skywalker
His role seems so out of charachter to what was portrayed in the original trilogy, I understand life can grind you down, but the temptation of striking down a sleeping Kyo-Ren seems so against his very principles, that I find that I'm bothered by that more and time goes on. Running away to Ahch-To, cutting himself off on the force and just waiting to die seems like a horrible over exaggerated action
By the way, I'll be buying the movie, and maybe watching later this weekend. Like I said, just now, its not a bad movie, but it suffered from some poor story telling (when the directory keeps explaining why something is done, means he failed to convey that during the movie, so he failed as a director. Some planet sized plot holes, and some odd charachterizations of the heros.