Very disappointed, felt like a Prequel

Rating: 4/10 (21 December 2017)

*Spoilers*
I don't often do reviews, but this movie angered me enough to spin up an account and write one.
First, the good: Solid visuals and effects. Some decent new characters introduced.
Now, the bad: Almost everything else.
The decision to turn Luke from a calm, wise Jedi into a scared, immature emotional train wreck was a bad decision. A slap in the face to those of us who grew up on Star Wars and made it what it is today. There is no scenario that can justify or explain what Luke was presented as in this movie. They could have gone in any other direction (making him insane, making him turn dark) and it would have worked better, this was the worst path. I understand the goal was to empower the new characters, but this was the wrong way to do it. Not really even debateable.
I can list about 40 things I was unhappy about with the new movie. It was just all over the places, filled with far too much eye rolling silly stuff, and nothing like the goodness that was the first 2.5 Star Wars films made.
I wasn't too happy with the job that JJ did with Force Awakens, but it was not bad in comparison to this, and had a number of good scenes and moments mixed in with some of the bad. This was just a bad movie, period. Script-wise, movie-wise, canon-wise, and failed to meet my expectations of a billion dollar initiative should deliver.