Terrible, just terrible.

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

While The Force Awakens was merely a re-skin of Episode IV, it did a decent job of relaunching the franchise. However, I had high hopes for TLJ after Rogue One, which is fantastic.
Unless Disney is setting us up for a knockout punch in Episode IX, this movie is absolute drivel. My biggest issues:
Who are Rey's parents? Apparent nobodies that dumped her on crappy Jakku? That's where an almost immediate Jedi Master with zero training came from? Even Anakin, the most powerful Jedi/Sith ever, had to be trained.
Snoke, absolutely powerful and foreboding in the Episode VII - yeah, let's just kill him with a cheap gimmick using Kylo Ren right after Snoke says he can read all of Kylo's thoughts. While we're at it, let's not explain who he is, his backstory or his motives.
The entire plot revolves around a resistance fleet running out of fuel being chased by star destroyers, but they're out of range to destroy them? That's it? That's all you could come up with?
While we're discussing the resistance fleet running out of fuel, escape shuttles are blasted out of the sky as the rebels escape to a planet. However, one single ship can sneak away on a mission without getting targeted and shot down by a star destroyer?
The acting is fine, the music great, the visuals are stunning, but this is the last Star Wars film I will be watching on opening night. Disney has destroyed a franchise.