Things that make you go mmmmn, but not in a good way!!!

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2017)

I love Star Wars, I grew up with it (I'm 46 years old) and although I enjoyed this film in part, it just doesn't feel like a Star Wars film for the following reasons.
**These answers may be plot spoiling-so read on only if you don't want anything revealed**
Where is the bad guy, the Vader, the emperor etc. There just isn't one and hasn't been one since Return of the Jedi.
Kylo Ren is like a spoilt brat rather than a baddie, Snoke has had zero character development, came from nowhere and before you can blink has bogged off again-completely pointless!!!!
There is very little continuity from Star Wars of old and the characters that are still there are paid very little lip service. I kinda get Disney need to make more fluffy toys and new robots (I actually like BB8) but he is just really a rolling R2D2 after all-it just feels like a money making exercise.
I have read some other reviews and totally agree that there is a massive part of the film that doesn't really need to be in it and could of been done in 10 minutes instead of wasting approximately 35-40 minutes of the film. It served no purpose at all.
To sum up, is the film Star wars-kind of is what I can say, if I'm honest I don't really know? Did I enjoy it, kind of-but again I don't really know.
Will episode 9 be any good, well on this showing, it can't be as there isn't really anything to come before it except a cheesy Rey and Ren thing going on which has no past to link it with anything and it is to late to do anything about it.
So in a nutshell, watch it, but don't expect a bona fide Star Wars experience. Of all the new films thus far the stand alone Rogue One has captured the Star Wars space opera far more than both Awakens and the Last Jedi.