Throws away everything from The Force Awakens

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2017)

Where do I start?
I'm so disappointed in this movie. So many wasted opportunities. It's a beautifully shot film with great cinematography but a terrible story and awful script. The cast try their best, but a lot of it seems wooden because of the bad script.
The opening scene with Hux and Poe on the intercom is cringeworthy. Hux reduced to a bumbling clouseau-esque character. The Leia scene in space is just stupid. The audience in the cinema actually laughed! Snoke is an excellent powerful villain but he's killed off in the weakest of ways. Without any hint as to where he came from why he's leader of the First Order how he became so powerful, they just threw him away like it didn't matter. Same goes for Reys parents, they're nobodies so that story arc was just thrown out. The Knights Of Ren not even mentioned. What were Reys Force visions all about in the Force Awakens? Not even covered in this film. The Finn and Rose story is pointless.
If they'd carried on the story arcs from the first film this would've been a great middle film in the trilogy but Practically everything set up in Force Awakens has been tossed aside in this. Leaving JJ Abrams with a big mountain to climb in the final film. I really can't see how they can save this in episode 9. Kylo as the main villain will be very weak. He's not intimidating or powerful like snoke was.
Would've love to have seen more of Snoke Kylo and The Knights Of Ren in episode 9 maybe facing off against Luke and Rey, sadly that ain't going to happen.
But good luck JJ Abrams. You're our only hope.