33 Battlestar Galactica

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2017)

A mess would be the best way to describe this thing and the more I think of it the closer it gets to prequels in terms of quality. The writing was woeful, there were a lot of unnecessary jokes throughout, there was way too much CGI, the characters are boring, the big villain, Snoke, is essentially a mincing halfwit and then there were the endless dumb touches - I guess we know where the name Skywalker comes from with Leia's ridiculous space expedition.
Worse, I had a sense of déjà vu while watching, despite the barrage of fools claiming critics "just don't like a new take on things", there's nothing new here. If you're paying attention, a lot of the film is lazy pulls from A New Hope, Empire and ROTJ, but there's something else, the plot skeleton, aside from the idiotic casino subplot, is a theft of 33, the pilot episode from the new Battlestar Galactica, only without any of the deft execution and attention to detail or reality. If you wanted to re-imagine 33 in the dumbest possible way, without any of the urgency, this would be it
The number of ships in the rebel fleet seems to change on a regular basis and given the fuel burn and the firing from the First Order most of them should have been done away with very quickly, but no even with shots of 10-15 ships or later escape pods, and then 10-15 ships being destroyed by the First Order, there's always a few more ships that somehow escaped destruction (did any CGI supervisor ever bother to keep an account of ship numbers). Sure this is picky, but it's a general example of the sloppiness throughout the whole film.
I enjoyed The Force Awakens, to me it was the platform and it made me enthusiastic for The Last Jedi, but if this thing was akin to a high dive, the diver has tripped, hit their head, plummeted in the most ungraceful fashion and belly flopped into the water unconscious.
They're going to need a great rescue crew to rescue and resuscitate the trilogy.