Complete dung. Bad humour, story & characters. The priority was making a statement of 'Political Correctness', not making a good Star Wars film.

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2017)

The humour is awful, very tongue-in-cheek and just doesn't work, it makes the film aware it's a film - I can't think of the correct way of saying this, its almost a spoof at times, parody, just really bad.
The story is bad, lazy, messy and full of huge plot holes, it isn't even worth thinking about too much as the writers obviously didn't. It feels like they had many writers not communicating well with each other go off and create their own separate set pieces designed to launch new toys, these sections are clumsily strung together into a showcase of FX.
The effects were impressive for the most part, only what I expected though and it isn't enough to hold attention when the story is so bad and badly told, I didn't care about much of the action because I didn't care about the reasons for the action. One new creature was particularly bad FX too.
The characters are dull and forgettable, most seem to be there more to make a statement of 'diversity' etc than anything else. There's a couple of older women in it who really smashed any small sense of immersion I might of had, just bad acting and weren't convincingly competent. The general rule is: the white men are evil or weak, females or 'POC' are inherently good, for the most part anyway - it's just patronising, juvenile and very tiresome.
I think this film has been poisoned with current political trends and virtue-signalling. Making a film to please modern Feminists, Leftists and SJWs has taken priority over making a good Star Wars film and it really shows, they've gone heavy on The Force being a metaphor for millennial 'feels' too, very cringey. Look out for next Star Wars film making a big statement in support of 'Trans rights' (a 'Trans' Wookie maybe?), and Rey blaming everything on Kylo's 'toxic masculinity'.
I've wasted enough time on this film already so I'll end my review here, just be aware if you plan to see it that there is none of the familiar Star Wars magic, no feel good factor, no reason to care and certainly no reason to pay good money to see this. I hope this film fails as hard as the new game is, and I grew up a Star Wars fan.