Different, but for better or worse?

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2017)

Having read spoiler free reviews here on IMDB and reviews from critics I tried to go into the cinema openmineded. That means I already knew this film was going to be really different from TFA. I didn't particulary like TFA because of it's onoriginality, so when I heard that TLJ would be wholy different, I actually looked forward to see it.
When I saw the opening credits, that feeling when you get when you watch a Star Wars movie got to me again.
I liked the first ten minutes of the movie, but after that it went downhill for me. Some scenes just felt out of place, others felt to long and my biggest problem is how easy things went, like it wasn't really well thought trough or something. I know it's Star Wars, Science Fiction and all that, but at least in the OT we saw Luke training with Yoda and his skills actually improving. In this movie and the last, Rey can just use the force without a proper training from Luke en is suddenly a skilled combat fighter.
Other points that bothered me:

Who the hell was Snoke? Like how could he be so powerfull? It was just like the director tought let's kill the bad guy to make Kylo Ren more interesting (missed a backstory!)
Hologram Luke. There has been written a lot about this character. And I understand the whole 'giiving the torch to a younger generation'. thing. But for Luke to go out in a way like that? He didn't really fight (exept for a matrix move) Plus suddenly he was a hologram. He didn't go off the Island for the whole movie. That really dissapointed me.
Rose/ Admiral Holdo: These characters felt rushed and I didn't really feel for them. Rose just felt like a fillerromance for Finn. And Holdo.. Why didn't she tell anybody about her plan? And that self sacrifice thing. Couldn't somebody like General Ackbar do someting like that, a character we actually know more than one movie? That scene wouldv'e made it so much more emotional. Now I was like 'oh okay'.

Yes I could talk about Leia floting in the air, the jokey overall tone, the underused Captain Phasma, or the Facetime scenes with Rey and Kylo. But I also enjoyed parts of the movie. Like I said I liked the first ten minutes, the character DJ (altough the whole betrayal twist was again poorly written) Poe Dameron, and it was good seeing Yoda again, altough him burning Jedi books felt a bit weird to me.
Overall, it's an unbalanced movie and I think the scenario is the number one problem (because the actors aren't that bad)