Too Bad it is not the Last Film

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2017)

There is very little in this film that is original. It is a direct parallel story to the Empire Strikes Back without the heart and character of TESB. There is virtually no story and it is pop to action scene - pop to action scene - pop to action scene with nothing written well enough to explain the film. It is a virtual eye candy movie with no story - but that is Star Wars - just a formula that has gotten worse and worse and worse.
The saving grave - there isn't a death star - again.
The bad (and there is a lot): Poe stages a mutiny and nothing happens to him or his fellow mutineers; Leia gets blown into space and somehow wakes up and flies back to the ship; an engineer suddenly becomes a pilot and saves Finn's life; the terrible subplot to find a code breaker to stop the First Order from finding the ships (which btw is so far fetched - there is no time to fly all over the galaxy while your ships are being destroyed and find rescue); the planet that conveniently pops up with a huge metal door to hide behind; the consistent desire to show alien creatures with no value to the film; and finally the badly written death of Luke.
Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver are two of the worse performers that I have ever seen. To make matters worse Finn has little screen time (and he is the only interesting character) and Poe is made out to be an idiot.
A sad send off to Luke Skywalker and a terrible tribute to Carrie Fisher.