Terrible

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2017)

This summary, "Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers," is misleading. SPOILERS FOLLOW. He barely trains her at all. You don't see much more of that than you do in the trailers. The movie fails to follow up on TFA. Everything from the last film is just dropped, from Rey's vision to the destruction of Starkiller base, which although it just occurred moments ago, has had no impact on the First Order which is now position to snuff out the very few remaining resistance fighters, who are inexplicably referred to as the rebellion as if they aren't the government. Everything from the behavior of Luke to the lack of background of Rey, makes no sense. Why was Obi Wan speaking to her in her Force Awakens vision, if she's no one? Why did she see scenes from Luke's life? Why did Luke nearly kill Kylo Ren if he refused previously even to kill Darth Vader when he had the chance? As Mark Hamill recently said, the character was "not my Luke Skywalker." The entire movie is detached from the whole Star Wars saga. If major events form this movie are canon, then the whole rest of the saga is not. It was a bitter disappointment.