Star Wars for Millenials

Rating: 6/10 (15 December 2017)

As a Star Wars fan, I really wanted to like this film but there are just too many problems. In the E.U., Luke is the strongest Jedi the universe has ever seen but in TLJ he is depicted as a coward and a quitter. Once he finally does something halfway cool, he dies from exhaustion. The entire plot of the movie makes no sense as all the First Order has to do is send a few ships ahead of the rebellion convoy, via light speed. to cut them off. The entire plot line with Fin and the Asian girl added nothing to the movie and basically could have been left on the editing room floor. We waited two years to find out who Snoke was and they kill him quickly, without any explanation of his backstory. This is the powerful nemesis we've been postulating about? Oh, and Rey is a nobody from nowhere. I get what the director was trying to do, the Force resides in everyone and can be expressed anywhere, not just in the Star War legacy family lines...I just felt there was so much more opportunity here that has now gone wasted. BTW, not one mention of the Knights of Ren? It's as if this director forgot there were a previous move (Force Awakens) that he was supposed to tie into.
There are some cool scenes but the movie jumps from one scene to the other so quickly that the viewer doesn't have time to absorb it fully. It's like this movie was created for an ADD kid, the Millennial generation. Also, there is a lot of misplaced humor, inserted into serious scenes inappropriately, and then just ignored for the remained of the scene. IMHO, this is sign of an inexperienced director that was not ready for such an undertaking. I grew up on the original trilogy and this is no longer the Star Wars that I recognize.