Entertaining and great visuals, but not sure about the story.

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2017)

The movie looks great and there are a number of scenes that are just beautiful. I really liked the look of Crait with the salt and whatever the red stuff was. The sounds of the movie were as top notch as they could be and of coarse the music was great.
The problem that I have with the movie are some of the plot issues.

Rey's parents. I hated this part of the movie so much. I can usually get over some story lines that are a let down from my perspective, but if they just leave it as Rey's parents are just nobodies who sold her for water or a fix, that's really disappointing.

Leia being able to just use the force all of the sudden. What happened there? My instant reaction to this scene was WTF? She's been able to kind of sense the presence of Luke before, but never been able to wield the force and now all of a sudden she can? She just floats back to the ship and no surprise from anyone in the movie or anything. Even if she could just use the force all of a sudden her just floating back to the ship was lame.

Rey's power. It makes no sense that she should be as powerful as she is. I get that she is supposed to be the new Luke or Anakin, but at least they had to develop over time. She apparently can just do it. Also, don't get me started on the light saber fights especially from TFA. Even if Kylo is all messed up emotionally he should have killed her no issue in TFA. Also the gaurds in Snoke's room should have messed her up.

Snoke. Who is he? Please give us something as to who he is. He's just there.

Captain Phasma. See above ^ and I think a lot of people wanted to see more of her. Her presence in the movie is.... She's just there because they wanted to please fans with an appearance.

The Resistance. Why are there apparently so few? I guess after The Return of The Jedi everyone just thought it was all over and The Empire was just going to give up. There should be way more people fighting against The First Order.

The Resistance bombers. Why are they so slow and get blown up by three tie fighter blasts and then one bomber can take down a dreadnaught...?!? I'm sorry, but from any perspective this makes no sense. I get what they were going for in terms of bombers being vulnerable but it was a little too much.

Luke. I get that he has kind of given up, but I don't think Luke would ignore the call for help like he did. They also did not need to have constant change of viewpoints on how it went down when he was training Ben. Also, it didn't make sense to me that Luke would just turn on Ben like that even though he fought for his father so much. Also the milking part.... So weird and not needed.

There are number of other things and I know not everyone will agree but it is just my two cents.
All in all the movie wasn't bad from a movie stand point, as it was entertaining, but from a Star Wars perspective it wasn't that great. Even the prequals make sense from a Star Wars standpoint Just too many things that don't make any sense in this movie. Maybe they should not have tried to do so many stories lines in one movie.
5/10