A Hate Letter To Fans

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 2018)

I was truly disappointed with this film, I have been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember.This film almost seemed designed to ruin the legacy that George Lucas left with the originals. For starters, the fact that they had a side quest that took up half an hour of the film is taking the piss, and the fact that it's only purpose was to tell us that capitalism and animal cruelty was totally unnecessary.
The way that they handled the characters from the original trilogy was criminal, they killed off Admiral Ackbar like he was just a background character. Having never seen Princess Leia use the force, I was surprised to see her not only survive in space, but to also then fly back to the ship basically unharmed. Meet Princess Leia Poppins everyone. And last but not least we have Luke Skywalker, a character who saw good in Darth Vader, but will attempt to kill his nephew because he thinks that he will turn the the dark side is just ludicrous. The fact that they had time to show him milking an alien and yet no time to show emotion is simply ridiculous, and then have him beaten by someone who has only held a lightsabre twice seems like a total waste of time.
When the head of Lucasfilm was asked what she wanted to do with a new trilogy, her response was "The main character has to be female". I have no problem with a female led Star Wars film. I however do have an issue with Rey, she has no character development, has only used a lightsabre once and yet is now the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy. Finn does pretty much nothing throughout the film apart from kill Captain Phasma and then nearly himself. Poe destroys a Dreadnought in the beginning of the film (I know that it was Rose's sister) and is then sidelined by Admiral Holdo for the rest of the film.
The addition of Laura Dern to the cast excited me, that was until her character turned up and consequentially added an additional hour to the film and then kills herself in a role that was befitting of a good character. Snoke had the makings of an excellent villain, and then is killed off halfway through the film. Kylo Ren seemed to have a cool story ahead of him, but then this film happened and he was reduced to just another crying emo kid that like to show how swole he is.
And onto the worst character in the film, Rose does nothing through the film but say stupid things and bring us to canto byte.
Captain Phasma was a waste of time being given that she is only in the film for about two minutes and is then killed off.
The film is also riddled with false humour which ultimately makes the film even worse.