Disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2017)

I was really hoping they'd step it up from TFA to this film. But really all they did was take two steps forward and one step back off a cliff side.
*WARNING- SPOILERS*
First off I want to talk about the forced humor. I sure as hell did not enjoy it and so did many other people. Certain parts of the movie there was injected humor when there didn't need to be any. The forced humor being stacked upon tense scenes or scenes that simply didn't need any basically turned this movie into a marvel film except the jokes weren't even funny to begin with. I'm fine with some humor but the moment you start using it incorrectly or having too much of it is when I start getting annoyed.
Second off is the character development. I think out of everyone in this movie Kylo Ren is the most improved overall. He showed more emotion and reasoning behind his actions adding to the complexity of his character. But EVERYONE ELSE was terrible, except maybe Rey in some cases. Now one character that made me furious beyond no ends was Snoke. He died towards the mid/end of the film in the most obnoxious and ridiculous way possible. We had no information of his past, if he was even Sith or anything at all just nothing. TFA hyped him up to be a bad*** but I guess he just turned out to be some old dude who gets sliced in half pointlessly. - Towards the end of the film Luke Skywalker has this fight scene with Kylo (sort of) that ends up with him basically "dying". He just vanishes into thin air becomes of one Star War's ghosts. Wasted potential is what it was.
Lastly lets talk about the plot. The ENTIRE movie revolves around the main resistance ship running away from the First Order. That's literally it nothing else at all just a really long chase thing that could have been easily avoided if the ships sped up a few meters to destroy the ships. There's some pointless casino scenes that add almost nothing to the plot with the addition of a new character "Rose" who is one of the WORST characters in Star Wars history. Anyways I digress, the movie ends with Luke turning into a ghost and Snoke dying and the last of the resistance force escaping from the First Order and flying off into space to find more force sensitive users I guess. No cliffhangers or anything, nobody knows what could happen next.
TLDR
Pros
-CGI
-Soundtrack
-Camera Work
-Any action in the film
-Kylo's character development
Cons
-Entire plot
-Useless boring casino scene
-Snoke dying way too early
-Dumb and lazy ending
-Wasted actor potential for Phasma
-Pretty much the entire movie??
Summary: This movie isn't the worst Star Wars film I've seen but by no means is it the best, it's definitely in the bottom 3 worst Star Wars movies. Wasted plot potential and character direction for the whole movie and just more dumb setup for the next film. I'd definitely recommend waiting to watch this when it comes out on DVD.
Rate: 6/10