Misfire

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2017)

Strange "Star Wars" movie, seemingly made by people who don't really like "Star Wars," or have much artistic discipline, because despite a few winning sequences, the movies mostly a mess.
It's loaded with plot holes, ignores or undermines much of what's come before, perverts the previous trilogy's primary hero, introduces new and uninteresting characters, has a few TERRIBLE performances (Carrie Fisher and Laura Dern most specifically), is overlong and actually kinda boring in spots.
Worst of all, though, and what makes the film's decisions inexcusable, is how many times narrative tension is raised, only to be completely undercut by a bad joke that falls flat. I was amazed at how terrible the dialog is, how disrespectful and UNFUNNY the jokes.
Like I said: A "Star Wars" movie seemingly made by people who don't like "Star Wars." A few of the curve balls work (Rylo Ken and his helmet, for example), but most prove to be massive mistakes.
It's weird that Disney can do such a good job throughout the Marvel films and blow "Star Wars" so bad.