An embarressing script. Disney should be ashamed.

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2018)

First, going back a second... I loved the newest characters from SW 7 (Rey and Finn), but was disappointed in the movie. SW 7 had a good story, but that was because it was the same one George Lucas gave us in SW 4, and that was the problem, it was the SAME story. After waiting almost 40 years, in the end, we just got the original movie, with new characters plugged in for the originals.
The problem with this latest film is that not only did it not really advance the story in any significant way, but it continuously uses ridiculously unbelievable plot contrivances. Even in SW 7, the First Order has clearly inherited the vast resources of the Empire (its warships, etc.), but suddenly, in this film, we get multiple, stretched out (supposedly, "nail biting") battle sequences that should have ended in "seconds" (won by the First Order), but seem to be replicas of 20th century, World War II battles, as though the First Order (since SW 7) no longer seems to have anything better than a few "tugboats", with "muzzle-loaded cannons". Despite "ruling the galaxy", we are supposed to accept that the First Order can no longer manage to wage even a basic space battle. Maybe a seven year-old might find these sequences "exciting", but for anyone else, they are really just laughably awful.
Maybe that's my problem. Maybe the target audience, now, is just young children, but for those of us who (as adults) thoroughly enjoyed the original trilogy, it is sad to see the core of this franchise evolve into something so awful.
If you want to see a Star Wars worthy film, just purchase Rogue One, and watch that several times a year. That's the "bar" that the rest of the franchise should have been reaching for. It is orders of magnitude better than SW 7 or 8, and for that matter, SW 1-3 as well. It also is clear evidence that "someone in the world" actually knows how to write a great SW script. Sadly those folks aren't writing scripts for this latest trilogy.