There's no denying Star Wars: The Last Jedi has proved itself a divisive movie.

While the film has been reviewed very positively by critics, fans have been a little less blown away by Rian Johnson's contribution to the franchise, which means that there's a pretty big difference in critics' and users' scores for the film on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

At the time of writing, The Last Jedi is certified Fresh on the site with a 92% aggregate critics' score, but the audience score shows that just 53% of people liked it.

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This week, however, a Facebook page called Down With Disney's Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys claimed responsibility for the unexpectedly low audience score, alleging that they used bots to spam the site with negative reviews because they were angry with the film's direction, particularly with regard to its male characters (via The Huffington Post).

But for those fans of the film hoping that this means a swift turn-around in audience scores is imminent, Rotten Tomatoes has denied that these claims are true.

"For Star Wars: The Last Jedi we have seen an uptick in people posting written user reviews, as fans are very passionate about this movie and the franchise," a Rotten Tomatoes rep told Variety.

"The authenticity of our critic and user scores is very important to Rotten Tomatoes and as a course of regular business, we have a team of security, network, social and database experts who closely monitor our platforms."

Never mind, then. Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

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The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has spent the last week or so defending his decisions in the film and explaining that he never wanted to divide fans.

"The goal is never to divide or make people upset, but I do think the conversations that are happening were going to have to happen at some point if [Star Wars] is going to grow, move forward and stay vital," he said.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is in cinemas now. Pre-order the DVD or Blu-ray here.

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