Completely One Dimensional

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2017)

Recently saw the new Star Wars, went in with an open mind, thought the movie was a disappointment, not completely opposed to trying new things, but that's not the problem, the movie is just sooo bad....
1. Floating Leia
2. Slow Chase (what a hilarious/stupid premise for a movie)
3. Luke Skywalker being completely out of character
4. The stupid comedy (dead silence in the theater after most of the jokes ...)
5. Casino Planet
6. General Hux being depicted as a moron (wtf? have you seen Rouge One, Grand Moff Tarkin was intense, that's a real villian)
7. Zero continuity between The Force Awakens + TLJ
8. Stupid Disney animals that are clearly in the movie in order to sell merchandise (Porgs... ice wolves.....).
8. Plot hole after plot hole after plot hole, just read through any of the 1 star reviews and you'll get plenty enough to talk about. I've read alot of them, and in my opinion, most of them are very well written, and look/sound authentic to me.
I get that they wanted to send some political messages and push new ideas, in my opinion, do that with a different movie, go attempt that with Transformers or the Marvel Garbage or make up some other bran new garbage sci-fi movie. Why ruin a proper Star Wars reboot ?
I was fine with Admiral Holdo (although not how she ended up hiding info from Poe, anyone hiding info would've pissed me off), in fact I liked that the Vice-Admiral was female, as I do look forward to the day when more females are in positions of power and where things are more equal on planet earth (plus I have always been a fan of Laura Dern after her role in the original Jurrasic Park, just awesome). I also liked her final sacrifice (women give and sacrifice so much in this world). I was not opposed to the ending of the movie, the Skywalker astral projection, I actually really liked that part. I was fine with Skywalker dying as well. Last fight scene was the only decent part of the movie, I did also enjoy the Rae + Ben fight scene after the killing of Snoke.
Bottom line, I had a hard time getting into this movie, as it was so one-dimensional. To me the movie reeks of a director/writer/artist who thinks he/she can just splash around random module components (with each module potentially being a neat or cool idea) and then just slapping them together without any thought or flow to the movie. A true artist knows how to bridge independent ideas/thoughts together and produce a final product that is "whole". In fact that is what I believe makes a gifted artist. Rian Johnson doesn't have the gift (neither do I of course). I wish Gareth Edwards would've directed TLJ. I bet it would've been a much better movie (I was a fan of Rouge One).
Finally, all this talk of the "alt-right" influencing the ratings. This has nothing to do with the alt-right, the movie is just not good. That's it. Very confused as to how the critics rated this movie so high? Very confused.