a disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (30 October 2016)

I have seen two other Star Wars movies. I very much enjoyed them. This one was boring. The plot: some people fight each other. Most of the time is spent watching CGI explosions and tiny CGI spacecraft swarming about like mosquitoes.
The main thing to recommend it is females get to participate. The sets are dark and vague as if there were not enough budget to fill in the details.
It is somewhat distressing seeing Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo and Princess Leia looking so old and decrepit.
The craft which have propulsion systems far more advanced than ours use WWII-style weapons hanging below the craft in a bubble with hand targeting without instruments to assist. I guess it makes better theatre, but to me, it just looks silly.
The best scene is a restaurant with creatures from all over the universe. It reminded be of the bar scene in the original.
Hans Solo used "parsecs" as a unit of time instead of distance. That is a gaffe that even a science-literate child would catch.
Even when they finally find Luke Skywalker, you would expect him to do some amazing rescue, but the movie just ends before even says anything.