Average at best

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2017)

How this movie is getting such fantastic reviews from critics is beyond me. I didn't absolutely hate it. It wasn't horrible and there were certainly a few bits that kept me entertained, but overall this movie missed the mark big time.
The best way to describe the film is with the word "underwhelming". Snokes death personally annoyed me a lot. In TFA we had this mysterious, kinda scary character. No one could quite pin how old he was or even what species he was for that matter. Everyone was wondering where he came from, who trained him, how exactly he managed to reach out to Kylo Ren and twist his mind in the first place. These were good questions, questions that kept the excitement since everyone first watched TFA alive, but to then just give him what? 10 mins of screen time all up and just kill him? Without even bothering to try and answer any of these questions? That just seemed like really lazy writing to me. Not to mention his actual death was pathetic. Seeing him use force lighting on kylo, it was obvious he was very powerful so to not even be able to see him in full action and to kill him such a pathetic way was a huge disappointment.
Now Kylo is the supreme leader and he's just not as exciting seeing as he isn't in the slightest bit intimidating like former star wars villains (e.g. Darth Vader or even anyone in the eu), and we already know he's evenly matched by the protagonist so there's really nothing endearing about him being the boss of the bad guys. Not to mention that in an attempt to make his character complicated and relatable, Rian instead created an unstable man-child that's very easy to hate and absolutely does not steal the show like Vader did.
Phasma was once again a huge disappointment and the last show down between Luke and Kylo really solidified the fact that the movie was a let down. When Luke wen't out to face Kylo to protect his family and friends, I genuinely thought it was going to save the whole movie but instead it was the most anti-climatic scene I've probably ever witnessed. Was really hoping to see a really good jedi/ sith fight scene, force powers and all because let's be real, that's the real reason most people watch star wars but instead got we Luke swerving a few attacks before finding out he wasn't even there and then he just dies????
The good parts of this movie; some new characters like Rose and Holdo were good, Poe was great in this film and was good to see him get some more screen time, and like I said before, there were some good/entertaining bits but overall it just didn't have the same feeling as other star wars films do, some good characters/ characters that had a lot of potential to be interesting were butchered, the writing was mediocre, the plot was average, doesn't really feel like the movies are going anywhere atm and some scenes were borderline childish. Huge disappointment.