Worse than I thought it would be, horrible script. That fantastic trailer tricked me!

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2017)

The film makers did the right thing by releasing a smart trailer that did not give hardly any of the story away, however I was left unsatisfied and there were some plot twists that completely destroy the rest of the potential star wars cinematic universe. Most of the movie is a missed opportunity.
I will get straight to the point and cover the things I liked and the things that I disliked.
Liked
1. Mark Hamill, he is and will always be fantastic as Luke Skywaker his performance was great.
2. Snoke was an interesting character and formidable bad guy, he would and should have kicked serious ass in the next star wars movie!!!
3. The battle at the end.
4. Chewie.
Disliked
1. Too much comedy perhaps. The new order was a joke and it seemed like they tried too hard to make every scene a funny one with all First Order characters acting like complete morons, and the rebels stunning each other like juveniles being given a tazer.
2. Politically hidden messages in the movie. - Anti Capitalist tone for the people / creatures in the casino. Was that alien picking up coins a reference to Trump? And the horses smashing through the casino knocking over rich people (who by the way sell weapons in the galaxy) really? It's that unobvious? I could see it a mile away.
3. Snoke taken out so easily.....I mean c'mon Kylo Ren will now be a raving lunatic for the last episode and does not have any dimension to his character besides yelling like a nut case.
4. The middle of the movie dragged on and was so boring. A ship following another ship for the whole movie does not add anything new to the star wars lore.
5. No lighsaber duels??? even at the end wtf? instead they just fight ninjas.
6. Leia blasting Poe and the other commander (Dern) repeatedly calling him a flyboy??? what is that???? that's not star wars, that's a bad attempt at hipster comedy which failed. Looks like DERN thought she was in top gun 2.
7. Leia is blasted into the vacuum of space and is still alive. Then uses force pull to save herself. That's just so stupid!
8. Luke skywaker....force projecting himself, then fainting to death???? Um what???
9. Captain Phasma is just cannon fodder and a huge waste.
10. The sub plot where they are looking for that lock smith guy is horrible and cheesy, he ends up being a boring character that is again thrown away and wasted.
11. A Rebel Capital ship has 18 hours of shield power and can sustain constant cannon fire, but a dreadnought star destroyer has NO shields and can be successfully attacked by one X-Wing and a handful of bombers?
12. Poe's failed mutiny was an absolute joke. How did he get the other squad leaders to point their guns at the officers? and with no consequence to them?
13. Rey's parents to be hyped only to turn out to be quote - "filthy merchants" WHAT?
14. OH Look! A convenient abandoned planet, that happens to have a well stocked, hidden rebel base in it right there when they need it. LOL, gosh a 3 year old kid could think of a better story with a better plot.
There are touching moments when Luke reunites with Chewie, Leia and R2D2. But nothing touching throughout the whole film with any of the new characters. There is just no emotion there worth mentioning, except Kylos crazy behaviour and outbursts.
Many questions are unanswered, like what was Snokes back story? Why is Yoda happy to burn the jedi tree? Where are the knights of ren? Who will train Rey if Luke is dead / gone? Where can they go to conclude the saga in a satisfying way from this point? The whole thing is a huge mess. Force Awakens was so much better and that says a lot.
The movie ran over 150mins and was an unsatisfactory bore-fest. It's like they want to destroy everything in all past start wars films and turn the franchise into a space comedy. Anything serious about the franchise they have sought to destroy. Sorry that was already done a million times better in Spaceballs. Sorry I really wanted this to be great but it failed on so many levels. The plot of the movie is summed up as, Rey wanting Luke to train her and the First Order following a rebel ship. This movie is best described as a mess akin to the mind of Kylo Ren.
3 out of 10.