Could be the worst film in the franchise

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2017)

I reckon once the dust settles on this film the backlash will begin, and you will see film critics doing a massive U turn on this film soon. Right now they are caught up in the hype and are too afraid to give it a bad review for fear of being ridiculed, particularly as the film did lots of nice PC correctness box-ticking and going against type, which critics usually love. The more I think about it, the more disappointed I get now with this film. There is so much wrong with it, its easier to focus on what actually works in the movie, and the answer is very little. Too many storylines, the whole prequel-type CGI casino scenes with Finn and Rose was not needed at all, too many unnecessary twists were the film was trying too hard to be clever, but most unforgivably - destroying Luke Skywalker's character. I didn't care what happened to any of the characters by the end of the movie. It was trying too hard to be too box-ticking PC correct too - vegetarian is good, being rich is bad, religion is bad, everyone is equal, you don't need to be a Skywalker to be a Jedi, anyone can be a Jedi, etc. Terrible film, and may actually be the worst film in the entire franchise (how is that even remotely possible after all the hard work achieved with Force Awakens and Rogue One?)