I hesitated to give this four stars

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2018)

This entry into the Star Wars franchise was an utter dud and will, sorry to say, be ranked as the worst movie in the saga. And rightfully so. After the last movie, this one was set up with so much potential to be great and it failed. Period.
It started out showing that potential, however. The initial combat sequence was entertaining, especially the "I'll wait on hold for Hux" banter by Dameron. And when Luke takes the Light Sabre, tosses it over his shoulder and tells Rey to get lost was great. Then after that... I don't know what happened. The entire time Rey keeps trying to get Luke to come back reminds me of a kid who keeps asking his mom or dad for something by repeatedly saying "please" over and over. It got to the point I was waiting for Rey to pull a Patrick Swayze and repeatedly sing "I'm Henry the Eighth, I am!" like he did to Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost."
Also, since when does the evil galactic First Order decide to wait out an enemy until their supplies (fuel) run out? This isn't the US Army Civil War siege of Petersburg. All they had to do was just... speed up. Or jump ahead. Or surround them on all sides. Your forces outnumber the rebels by, what? 100-1? And that's the other thing... when Finn and Rose are going to be executed, why all this "on the count of three!" melodramatics? Just do it, already. I'm getting a little tired of this formulaic approach already. And killing off the supposed ultimate evil leader that is / was Snoke in such an unspectacular fashion just accentuates how underwhelming this movie is.
The final scene was akin to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After Kylo has all weapons fixed on Luke, everyone opens fire. and then Luke walks out of the smoldering rubble and dusts off his shoulder, I was half expecting him to say "'tis but a scratch!"
The only thing that could have saved this movie would have been Rey accepting the offer when Kylo asks her to join him. Now THAT would have been a twist no one saw coming and set up for a fantastic finish. But it didn't happen and this movie leaves you wondering why it was even made because nothing was added or gained by it. If MST3K was still around, they would have a field day with this dreck.