Just awful. I miss George Lucas!

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2017)

It's hard to overstate my frustration with this movie. Its just plain bad - the pacing is awful, the acting terrible, the lines cheesy as heck, plot holes galore. At least George Lucas could tell a story and get the pacing right, despite the obvious cheese.
Reasonable minds can disagree on the substance of the movie. For example, I HATE what they did with Luke. Others might like that they made him a cantankerous old kook, one of the most unlikable characters in any movie I've seen. That's merely opinion.
But substance aside, its like a child wrote this movie. I walked out feeling exactly the way I did after I took my kid to see the Nut Job. Just a dumb kids movie. The only reason people are even bothering to pick this movie apart, like they probably wouldn't with the Nut Job, is because this is STAR WARS.
I waited 30 years to see Luke back in action and he appears in this train wreck of a movie, chock full of a 2 hour long slow motion space chase, dumb horse-rabbit-kangaroo things, an AWFUL stuttering Benecio del Toro, cringe-worthy EXPOSITORY dialogue and meaningless side plots. And the fact that *spoiler* Luke was a hologram...how unbelievably pointless.
On the topic of expository dialogue and plot holes - Luke comes back, greets the resistance and walks out to pretend fight. Wouldn't he tell them - "Hey, I'm a hologram and I'm going out there to stall so you can get away," Instead of just walking out? But that wouldn't have been suspenseful, so instead, we need the cheesy and awful exposition from Poe about how Luke must be stalling. I remember I wrote a screen play in 8th grade, and it was loaded with this awful type of dialogue because I had no idea how else to tell the story. It's amateurish.
I sincerely miss George Lucas. Maybe he can buy back the rights to Lucas Film and redo this garbage.