When hope dies....

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2017)

The film in itself never raised high expectations after Episode VII, which was still a mess of different loose strings of narrative, which everyone expected to be tied up in the forthcoming episodes. Asking for a film with more depth was long gone after the direction that Episode I,II and III took. But those films where entretaining and had a concise narrative where they wanted to head on.
Shure, it is more difficult to create something new in the depths of space if you dont know how ist going to end. Something "Rogue One" gave proof on how effective a merely entretaining with some serious political subtext film can be tied in between already worked out narratives.
That said, this is not underhelming, this is shattering. Not only from the point of narrative, which still is the same mess like in Episode VII, but worst: it seems to be a film in a film, which might be the only depth you will find here, always pushing the "rewind" button to start over. That is pretty unpleasing and seems to evoke the fear that the very dark side of our suspicions: this is not only shallow, it is simply not working at all.
Narrative is only the first in a long line of problems. The bad overacting with some of the worst perfomances of all actors makes everything go down in a landslide. And that has necessarely nothing to do with the actors, more with a clueless director. One of the other problems is the cut. Maybe it was good and product was worse before (someone has to ask himself how), but it is inconsistent, confusing and completely lost in the mess. Other bad aspects are the sound, the animations and the makeup. The only merit this film has, is the use of less Locations and concentration on a few spots. It was a surely a good idea, but what a way to go.