It's a lovely review overall, but this comment in particular had me laughing for a long time.

Star Wars VIII had roughly the nuance of a Bantha and the mastery of worldbuilding you'd expect from Jar Jar Binks.

It had lots of pretty special effects and fantastic-looking locations, but the scenes were incredibly on-the-nose with hardly any innuendo, and the suspension-of-disbelief-breaking changes to world mechanics introduced by Rian "Holdo Maneuver" Johnson were not even paid for by masterful storytelling by Rian "Insanely Long Pointless Finn/Rose Side-Quest" Johnson, or by cleverly deceptive planning by Rian "Somehow the Vice-Admiral Forgot that No Evacuation Transport That Small has a Cloaking Device so They're All Sitting Ducks and Why Don't TIE Fighters Just Shoot Them All" Johnson.

To be fair, I thought it was a nice trope-inversion that the daring crazy plan to save the day turned out to be pointless--but the amount of time wasted on actions that didn't end up advancing the plot was ultimately disappointing. There was a small tweak that would have made everything make sense: Finn or Rose goes to Holdo and reveals the plan; Holdo accepts that it would be good if it works even though she's incredulous that Poe would defy her and not tell her, but Holdo reveals to just Finn (say) that if it doesn't, the only option she sees is to evacuate and try to ram the fleet, hoping the distraction can buy time for escape, and that if they can't get the tracking device disabled, maybe they can disable the shields on the Supremacy thanks to Finn's inside knowledge of protocols and stuff. Then, when they fail at the primary quest, Finn reveals the backup quest, they agree to try even though if the shield goes down they may all die, and they (miraculously) succeed at that; the instant the shields go down/are disabled, Holdo switches to hyperspace, causing extensive damage to the Supremacy. Finn and Rose survive after all (damage wasn't there) and escape. Then, of course, that ruins Rian "I Can't Keep My Messages About Sacrifice Consistent" Johnson's scene with Finn and Rose outside the resistance base later, but--hey, that's a plus; two birds, one stone.

If you watch Star Wars expecting tons of logical consistency, subtle posturing that you have to watch five times to pick up on, or spectacular continuity, you're watching the wrong thing. But the idea that clumsily tromping through an existing world, breaking things left and right while bluntly telling an poorly-planned story is "nuanced and masterful" is quite a hoot.

Thanks for the laugh!