RIP Star Wars

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

New characters are wasted (and old ones for that matter) with no backstory or character development. Forced Disney-fied and MCU humour in parts. Leia poppins scene was beyond awful and a throw back to Marvel and Disney's 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movies. Visual effects were poor in parts and space battles didn't really look like something from SW visually. Looked like a MCU movie. Despite going back to practical effects in the last movie, this one goes back to over reliance on CGI despite the prequels being criticised for this reason - hypocrites much? Cringe slow mo scene at the end - again, not something you would see in a SW movie. Rian Johnson has taken no risks, there are no twists as you might expect from the marketing and any Snoke or Rey's parentage theorists will be bitterly disappointed. This film is full of cringe worthy sexual innuendos, Finn calls a character a 'bastard' in one scene (really, was this necessary) and with the new pointless character Rose, this movie is nothing more than a desperate politically correct cash grab by Disney in an attempt to appeal to the masses with lead characters from different ethnicities and backgrounds. With Rian directing yet another unnecessary SW trilogy, god help us all, SW will never be the same again...and not in a good way. It is time for SW to end.