A review from a non Star Wars fan

Rating: 5/10 (13 March 2018)

I have to start by saying that I am not a Star Wars fan, however, I am a big space and sci-fi fan and therefor I generally like these kind of movie.
I would like to start with the positive and it is worth mentioning the incredible visual effect. The space battle were amazingly illustrated. I liked that the opening scene was a battle scene and I must say my admiration go for the scene with the light-speed jump as it was a masterpiece.
However this scene was just a few second long and that does make a movie. What I did not like in the movie was the Fast and Furious type story whith so many plot holes and absurdities that was even annoying at some moments. As I mention the opening battle scene had amazing visual effect, however it term of narrative it was ridiculous and honestly offensive to my intelligent. On top of everything they tried to create suspense by threatening to kill basically every main character in the first 10 minutes of the movie. That was obviously not going to happened so it only made the stretching of the scene annoying.
The biggest issue that I found with the movie was the main story line. On the good side it was not a remake of the previous episodes but it had a major plot hole making it just stupid. SOME SPOILERS AHEAD! Basically the whole movie was the resistance being pursued by the first order in space using non light speed as the first order could track ships in light speed. In the movie it was literally said that the ship of the resistance was lighter and therefore faster in non light speed but it never went ahead of the first order's ship and instead stayed ahead with the same distance from the pursuers ships during the whole very long pursuit. On top of everything the first order never used their light speed to cut them off and ambushed them.
NO MORE SPOILERS
During the whole movie there were many plot holes made simply in order to make the story. It is like the screenwriters never put much thought into the narrative and just used absurd conveniences to advance or create the story.
In terms of acting i have to say that I really did not like Mark Hamill. Maybe I was expecting too much from him. In general the actin was ok with some overacting here and there.
One was thing I have to mention is the attempted humor. I think that the correct humor at the correct time can make a big improvement to the movie but they failed in my opinion to achieve that.
Overall if you want to watch mindless scenes with stunning visuals this is the movie for you. If you want a good coherent story that is definitely not the movie for you.