Flash, but no substance

Rating: 1/10 (23 September 2019)

I left the theatre enjoying it, but disliking certain elements about it. This is pretty typical for most movies. However, the more I thought about it, the less I liked it. No shade to the acting, I think it was great. I can't complain about the visual effects--this was the best looking star wars movie yet. My complaints is four fold: (1) the writing, (2) the logic, and (3) story continuity, (4) characters and buildup.
(1: Writing) The writing is just confusing, when there should be drama, there is humor (e.g., throwing the lightsaber), there is an hour dedicated to plot points that don't advance the plot (i.e., casino planet), and they had great buildup to key moments, where they quickly diffuse in an unsatisfactory manner (e.g., throwing lightsaber, snoke, Rey's parents, Luke dies because of...what?). The writing is made more to keep you guessing than to tell a good story.
(2: Logic) Lightspeed suicide? Ramming is literally the oldest form of naval warfare and cannot be a novel invention. If this is possible, unmanned ships would be the primary weapon (such technology and they needed someone to stay behind and pilot it?). A terrible leader who doesn't share ideas with subordinates and robs them of any hope of survival? Rey is now on par with Snoke and Kylo who have trained their whole lives? How (and maybe more importantly why) did Rose stop fin going full speed suicide? She had turned around? etc.
(3: continuity) Yes, I'm one who think this Luke's character is inconsistent with who he was in E6. While possible I guess, why did they feel the need to change Luke's stance towards the dark side? He literally was going to die rather than kill Darth Vader, now he on the edge of killing his little nephew for having impure thoughts? Why do they disregard his character arc from E4-6 and make him an anti-force hermit? I really wish they got the original 3 together (Han, Leia, and Luke). I have some complaints about the new force powers, but no space here. Several similar points to this, the whole "let the past die" is fine, but you can't pretend the past didn't happen and just make stuff up. Keep to the cannon.
(4: Characters and Buildup) I left without wanting to see any more Star Wars. This is largely to do with the characters. While I actually like Rey, Kylo, and Fin, I keep forgetting the names of the rest and don't really care. I don't think any of them are very compelling. The writers have killed any intrigue JJ created in TFA, and left you with nothing to look forward to. No Snoke, no major conflict between Rey and Kylo. What is the point? Rey is overpowered for how much she has trained--she needs to lose a battle because there is currently no one stronger than her. She has already established she is better than Kylo and Snoke and Luke are both dead. She has had 0 setbacks (aside from Luke not wanting to train her). I bet they will have her get beat up early on in TLS. To summaries, TLJ killed or resolved anything I cared about in Star Wars and left very few questions to be answered. I don't feel a need to watch any more. I would give the movie a 3/10 for entertainment but I ultimately I gave it a 1/10 because it killed the franchise and didn't fit in to the universe--more sinful than e1-3.