Some Many Problems...

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2017)

1. Poe: Prank call to the Huks; childish. Then a single fighter - one fighter - manages to get through and cause major damage to this "dreadnaught". Later, just one bomber destroys the indestructible ship by "dropping" bombs in zero gravity. Riiiight. Poe mutinies, and is undone. All is forgiven because, well, he's a major character. Oh, and BB8 can do anything. Anything!
2. Huks acts like the befuddled owner of Moe's Bar rather than the commander of a fleet. His military abilities are nil. Only after Poe attacks does the fleet launch their own fighters? They aren't ready to attack the moment they come out of light speed? For the final battle, rebels line up in a trench in front of the door - so he lines up as well as interminable time is taken to drag the cannon into place? He has air dominance then - but not a single fighter strafes the trench?
3. Rey - Who is she? No one. But she has some Jedi mind-link to Kylo. She can do anything without any training, well because. The trip to the dark hole with the infinity mirror served absolutely no purpose.
4. Luke Skywalker has been reduced to shambling hermit. He's grumpy and uninteresting. ("You kids get off my island.") Light saber tossed, alien walrus milked, cuty porgs introduced for marketing. How did the hologram actually fight Kylo, sword to sword? Hamill hasn't acted in some time, and it showed.
5. Yoda - Why?
6. The slow motion, film-filling chase scene was ridiculous. "Their ships are too quick." Again?! No one thought to make a very quick jump to light speed to get ahead of the rebels. But it gives the rebels time to cook up a Rube Goldberb plan introduced by a gratuitous Moz cameo. Break away from this chase to go to a casino planet to find a nameless codebreaker - gratuitous Del Toro - to bring back to sneak on the ship to save the day? That it didn't should have been expected.
7. The casino planet was totally unneeded. The nameless breaker (a 1% arms dealer) is identified, but while they can't get to him they happen to be locked up with an even better choice, the grauitously cast Benicio Del Toro. He pops them out and solved their problems with the help of some indestructible riding beasts. Except he didn't and made things worse for he rebels. (With all those arms dealers, why haven't the X-wing and Tie fighters been upgraded in 30 years?)
8. Finn and Rose serve no purpose - except for diversity points! Speaking of, note that the First Order is all white and nearly all male but the rebels are so diverse (including aliens) to defy all logic. The two can operate any equipment available, and survive two major crashes with no explosions. That the giant door was open just long enough for them to fly in with no one expecting them was ridiculous. Was there supposed to be some romantic chemistry here? Nope, everyone loves each other like siblings.
9. Leia - She gets blasted into space but flies back and is her (very) old self in no time. Meanwhile, gratuitously cast admiral Laura Dern shows up in a gown with a neck like a crepe column to lead things. Diversity, with Poe giving the qualifying observation. She has a plan but won't tell anyone. That's leadership! Later her plan is revealed but "someone has to stay behind.". Why? Surely these ships cannot be run by a single person. Oh, that's right so she can do something dramatic and unexpected. If running a ship at light speed is as devastating as shown, you'd think light-speed based impact weapons would exist.
10. Phasma - How did she survive? Who cares? She came back just to get snuffed by underling Finn. So glad we got to see her one eye.
11. All the transports run to a convenient old Rebel base that's somehow safe. Nearly every ship gets picked off before they get there. Great plan.
12. Snoke - Who is he? How did he accomplish all that he did? No answers, just a you-see-it-coming death after delivering the typical villain speech.