It all started here

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2019)

Think of all the directions they could have taken this film in, all the possibilities, and what did they do? Reset all timelines and wiped the achievements of the previous 6 films.
6 ended with the rebels celebrating the end of the empire and death star. So why on earth is 7 opening with the rebels being chased by an empire with a death star?
It's just shockingly unforgivable levels of amateurism, they didn't even bother attempting to come up with a narrative so rehashed everything. Were there writers for this film? What were they paid for? 98% of the film doesn't carry an ounce of creativity.
For some bizarre reason people tend to defend this film as a "safe entry" to rebuild the franchise for a new generation, for them to take it in new directions afterwards. What? This is episode 7 of a 9-length narrative for goodness sake.. You can't have episodes 4 and 7 telling the same story. The only remotely interesting aspect of the film is the mystery surrounding the search for Luke.
There was no excuse for TFA, they chose nostalgia over creativity and paid the price for it with the following train-wrecks when TLJ was forced to desperately trying something new. I suppose it made a lot of cash mind, and that was the sole objective.