Wanted so much to love this

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2017)

So gutted to say that I really didn't.
Let's start with the positives, the opening and closing set pieces are phoenominal, Star Wars at its very best. These 2 parts however are the only shining stars in the whole thing.
The problems:
The acting like TFA was not up to par and at times the young stars seemed to be behaving like they where in a teen movie. The actors however may not have been the problem as the script time and time again went from lack lustre, to laughable to attempted humour completely off tone that was cringe worthy.
Whilst the effects in the set pieces where incredible in some of the other scenes they where naff. Take for example chewie and the roasted porg, chewie looked worse then he did in 1977 and the roasted porg look like red/brown pixles.
The plot had more holes in it then Swiss cheese and for more then half the film seemed stuck in boring mud. The interesting parts where ignored/killed leaving space for emo-darth to become the "big bad".
When are we going to get a defining SW film for our generation, one that isn't a carbon copy of an old one or that isn't flawed beyond reason. With so much amazing SW fiction out there why are we subjected to such inane plots.