Dense, strange and desperate.

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2018)

Beautiful performances by Hamill, Ridley and Driver.
Lazy script that repeatedly kept logic and sense away for the sake of

advancing the thin plot.

Again, another score with no character of it's own. Nothing new, or

memorable. Overuse of 'Binary Suns'.

You can't make a provocative, reactionary Star Wars film, while still being so

eager to please. Shoe-horned references to Hoth, etc.

Unsubtle tokenism.
Overlong. Film ends multiple times.
Cannot sustain it's comedy. Many jokes were unfunny, or played until they

wore out. BB-8, Porgs, Prank call, numerous one-liners and slapstick.

Prequel-tier nonsense on Canto Bight. Ugly CGI space horses, free in the corn.
Ham-fisted, sickly 'message' that made no sense in the context of it's scene.
Inventive and subversive in the most juvenile, safe and unimaginative way.

"Want it? Can't have it! Want it? Can't have it!"

Sometimes remarkably confident in what kind of film it wants to be, and other

times settles for middling schlock.

Good themes, but they didn't know how to implement them.
Some astonishingly beautiful visuals, (Rey in the mirror, Holdo Maneuver) and

some indistinct, ugly visuals, (Finn fights Phasma; lost in sheet metal and digital
fire)