Dull and Uninspired - No Spoilers

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2017)

I went into this movie with high hopes and no real expectations aside from a fun and interesting story. Unfortunately, I was let down tremendously.
Reinventing Star Wars for a new generation is fine. Even revolutionizing Star Wars is fine. It just needs to be done well. This Star Wars was indeed different but not in a good way. In an attempt to look original it basically became too much like most of the other cutter-cookie blockbusters of today.
The humor itself was forced and often times mocked the Star Wars franchise in a Spaceballs sort of way.
Character development was lacking and when it did occur it simply didn't connect well with the prior episodes. With such a rich story-line, established by the other 8 movies, you'd think more effort would have been made to connect with them.
The battle scenes and duels were, for the most part, quite bland and brief with no real emotional build-up or intensity.
Most of the emotional depth, which fuels the heart of every Star Wars film, was absent. Consequently, at around 3/4 of the way through the movie I basically stopped caring for these characters. Sadly, by the end of the movie I simply had no interest in seeing them in the next one.