One dimensional, visually spectacular film that betrays the OT's roots

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2017)

Wow, just look at all those IMDB reviews showing this as a solid 8/10 movie, yet everyone who's actually typed a review averages about 3 stars. Got to be some serious positive Bot voting going on, or so many people on Disney's payroll.
If Star Wars is the OT to you then you will be hugely disappointed in this shallow film with throwaway characters that you have no emotional investment in. Disney can do a decent SW movie - more of the Rogue One pedigree please.
Most of the people at our showing on IMAX looked around 40-50 years old, fully invested in the OT. So many things wrong with this film, not a lot right:-
The use of "godspeed" (twice?) was ridiculous in the SW world - "May the Force be with you" would have been fitting.
Leia's spacewalk was ridiculous (seened ripped off from Guardians of the Galaxy Starlord's rescue of Gamorrah") - Surely if fully trained Jedi can withstand an explosion, never mind being expelled into the cold of deep space then Plo Kloon should have survived Ep3. This was a supposedly untrained Leia though.
Luke's decision to enter the Jedi equivalent of the Swiss Dignitas clinic (without having a compelling reason to end it all) was hugely disappointing, I noticed Luke's light-footedness on the salt-covered red ash, and thought it was just super-jedi light-footedness until the reveal.
Snoke's gullability in meeting his death - Siths are always on the lookout for their ambitious underlings trying to kill them off and take their place. Even more unbelievable if he really was previously Darth Plagueis who was done in by his apprentice Palpatine. A hugely interesting character dead before we got the back story.
The non-SW humour - especially the prank call. Following that jape, I expected Finn to knock on a blast door on Snoke's ship and run off after having left a fiery bag of dog turds on the doorstep for Hux to stamp out.
The Casino world was just a crap filler.
The completely wooden Captain Phasma performance (again). I hope she's dead so that I don't have to watch her in Ep9.
The whole fuel usage and picking off umpteen ships on the pursuit was just so Battlestar Galactica.
Finally, watching in IMAX, I was in constant fear of an IMAX moment when the resistance announcer was in prime screen shot. Thought I was going to get battered by her 80 foot nose, or be sucked up her nostril.
There were other things, but it was just a callamitous story wrapped in gorgeous visuals.
I picked up a special edition poster supposedly only given out opening weekend for IMAX showings on my way out - perhaps I can get my £19 back by ebaying it! :D