A Mess

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2018)

There's something quite disturbing about the writing & directing decisions Rian Johnson has made here. J. J. Abrams left the saga in reasonable shape, with some tantalising story hooks for others to explore; Johnson seems to have taken a sick pleasure in undermining those loose ends and the result is a decapitated plot with very little left to engage an audience. This is a legitimately BAD movie, in every aspect of its execution. But it seems to WANT to be bad. I don't get how this can happen given the goodwill of the actors and unlimited funding. What's the point of all the expense and hype if you let a B Movie director write the script and make a mess of the whole show? The real evidence of how bad this movie is will be the poor showing for the finale. There's simply not a story to tell any more. If I was Abrams, I'd be furious.