incredibly disappointed and will alienate a lot of star wars fans

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2018)

I wanted to like this movie. I saw the first super-excited reviews on twitter and thought it was going to be great...but it completely disappointed me and a lot of other star wars fans.
Force Awakens had things in it that weren't great, but it was arguably better than the prequels and gave us some great characters, new faces, and visuals.
The worst part is that so many characters act like completely different people than they did before; Rey, Poe, and Luke especially. It was needlessly grimdark and full of death. The first movie established Rey as the main character with Poe and Finn as the other mains, but this movie acted as if Kylo Ren were the main character and not the villain. it seemed like everything the first movie established, this movie changed with no reason why. I felt especially cheated because Rey felt sidelined in a movie where she is supposed to be the hero. Backstory about the Knights of Ren and Rey's past was different from that stated in Force Awakens. The jokes were awkward and in places where they often broke dramatic tension or paused in the middle of the story, rather than being worked in organically, making the movie seem like a parody of itself. So many of the lines gave me flashbacks to some of the truly awful nonsense dialogue in the prequels, especially with Hux, and some of Rey and Luke's lines were so strange I just found myself thinking, "Did they really just say that?" The scenes between Rey and Kylo Ren were inconsistent with each character's development in the first movie, awkward, and just made Kylo look like a creep. The whole Snoke narrative was completely wasted. I find it impossible to give this movie more than a 1 rating because although a few things made me smile, i was so confused by where the film was going and how inconsistent it was that the whole experience was like watching a really, really bad fan fiction. Carrie, Daisy, Oscar, John, Mark, and the fans deserved something so much better than whatever this was