Weak story and lacking heart

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2017)

This movie doesn't feel like Star Wars to me. The original trilogy was a pulp adventure series in space. This move has a more realistic tone, where characters are supposed to feel real and relatable instead of fantastical and larger than life.
There is a theme of overcoming failure, but we aren't really shown characters experience any failure with any emotional impact (instead we are mostly told in flashback or alluded to of these events). And they don't learn much either. It's mostly self pity and shaming. But that doesn't work in a world where you have strange creatures who talk, porgs and lightsabers. They have made Star Wars into Twilight (the one with the teenage vampires). It's a classic young adult movie, where every character is mentally 14 years old and really only cares about themselves and shaming any person they meet (why do Rey expect/demand Luke to train her? why did she attack him when he lied/told his version of what happened? what gives her the right to take the jedi books from the temple? what's up with all the anger?).