Its actually quiet ok, BUT....

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2017)

Before it came out, Episode 8 was already seen as the next Empire Strikes Back-Level Star Wars Film.
New directions, reveals and a character based story.
While it archieves to deliver on the character aspects, it fails miserably at the plot aspects.
The new Luke is as interesting it can get: Seing our hero as a broken man, as he is being responsible for the creation of
space-himmler and losing all his students.
Hammil shines and steals every scene he is in.
Him going from broken man to someone who regains hope was an intriguing development. Having Yodas cameo
actually effecting Lukes character development and therby the plot instead of just making it hollow
fan service is heartwarming.

Rey is okay in this one. I still consider her to be a Mary Sue in VII though. I liked her dynamic with Luke and
was truly blown away with the Rey-Kylo-Thing. Yet, they went all the ways i expected them to with this character (not necessarily a bad thing)
Kylo Ren overcomes his inner conflict and decides to kill Snoke so he can rule with Rey, she declines.
Thats something a Sith does. Hes full dark side now which is ok.
Snoke wasnt treated that good in this one. He seemed to be one of the most powerful beings and yet Johnson
decided to insert a shot having snokes dead body with his tongue out, looking like a sleeping dog. C'mon....
Finn and Rose were only part of a trivial and uninteresting subplot. Sad.
Poe finally has some development. From the "cocky flyboy" to a responsible leader. Yet, part of
his Arc also was to not question the ones above and follow all commands, which was really odd.
The Pink Haired one was straight up stupid by not telling anyone her plan. She treats the ones
below her like trash and is later revealed as a shining hero. Nope, shes an A**hole.

The plot has too many holes this time. Why dont the Tie Fighters just destroy the Resistance Ship after
all the X-Wings are destroyed? The throwaway-line to fix this plothole is unconvincing and makes no sense.
Why dont the first order just make 2 smaller Star destroyers cut the Resistances' way off by jumping
ahead of them with lightspeed? Why follow them for hours? The ending though is a glamorous final with
everything coming together. The reveal with Luke not being there is amazing.
With all the new interesting stuff, i still feel like they borrowed a bit too much from the Original Trilogy.
The plot structure was in many ways similar to ESB and some RoTJ moments also slipped through.
The movie is a lot of fun. The action is shot amazingly and the fights are well choreographed while still
having a physicality to them. But for bit of dialogue in this film, we have an unfitting joke. While
i have nothing against the Porgs or humor in general... it is just too much in TLJ.
For every amazing scene we have a Leia-In-Space or Freeing-Space-Horses scene.
And for every great Character we have a big hole in the plot.

All in all its a fun Star Wars adventure, but too many Plot Holes, too many Jokes and too many odd things
retract form the enjoyment. Mistakes were defenitely made with this one.
Lets hope Johnson uses the Star-Wars-Lore-Knowledge of the people at Lucasfilm and creates a more
coherent Trilogy. And make it bigger in scale pls. The galaxy does not have to feel like if it was
an empty place with 2 Planets.