Emo Skywalker: Badly Cast Also: Can there be Star Wars in Star Wars?

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2016)

Can there be Star Wars in Star Wars? For over an hour, we're taken from random planet to random planet for no apparent reason other than to have new planets in the SW Universe. Gray, sad, dark planet to brown, dark sad planet, to rainy, sad dark planet. You can watch the first 10 minutes, then skip the next hour. .
But thankfully, Disney labeled them all, ala Michael Bay.
Fun Fact: There wasn't a single location popover in any Star Wars movie up until this point.
I had no emotional connection with the protagonist. Emo Skywalker was sullen, uninspiring, un-relatable and a tad barn-owly. The only thing more shocking than this casting choice that as of right now, this movie has an 8.2 rating.
Hey, and let's cast more English people with super thick Cockney and Gaelic accents who call Generals 'Mum'. Yeah, that doesn't break the illusion or take you out of the movie at all.
The fact that were was no opening scroll accompanied by a thundering John Williams orchestra is unforgivable. Intead, we're greeted with a Star Trek / Marvel / James Bone mini-10 minute-sequence, then the title, which again breaks the mood, then the rest of the move.
None of the supporting cast (which there were WAY too many of) had story arcs. Cassian, Bodhi and Saw could have been rolled into one - and still been incomplete.
Forest Whitaker was shoehorned into this movie for no reason other than to prove that he's alive. Another dull and shallow character.
They did get a few things right - the ending sequence almost saved this, but wholly disappointing.
Still better than the prequels - but barely.