There have been divided reactions to The Last Jedi over recent days, with fans who disliked Rian Johnson’s story direction complaining loudly across the internet.
Many have even managed to drag the film’s audience score on Rotten Tomatoes down to below 60%, considerably lower than other movies in the series.
But do those fans speak for the majority, or are they in the minority?
CinemaScore, ostensibly the only audience rating system that verifies whether participants have actually seen the film, surveys all kinds of audience members immediately after a screening finishes.
And on an A+ to F scale, The Last Jedi was rated A.
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That’s not to say it’s more important than the Rotten Tomatoes audience score, but it certainly proves that the reaction to the movie is much more complicated and varied than it may seem.
On IMDB, for example, the rating is somewhere in between the two metrics; standing currently on 7.9/10 at time of writing. Critics, meanwhile, are almost unanimous in praise, giving a 93% aggregated score on RT.
On ComScore, the film has scored five out of a possible five stars, with an 89% positive score and 79% saying they’d “definitely recommend” it.
Whatever audiences did think of Johnson’s efforts, he won’t be directly involved in the next film.
Episode IX, slated for release in two years’ time, will have JJ Abrams at the helm – he who previously took charge of Episode 7: The Force Awakens.
Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi is in cinemas now.