Utter mess. I hope this kills the franchise.

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2017)

I loathed TFA, full disclosure. Beat for beat rehash of ANH, blah, blah, blah, usual complaints. But it was still better than this crapola.
They're OUT OF GAS!? SERIOUSLY!? A problem that has never ONCE been encountered in a SW movie before to the best of my recollection?
We're back in the throne room from RTJ? I could hear Ian McDiarmid's diaphram-cackling in that scene.
Completely ruin the character of Luke solely for the purpose of killing him off and thereby the most important and arguably beloved character in the franchise? The screenwriter of the first film was more right than he knew when he said Luke couldn't be in the first film because everyone would stop caring about what's-her-name as soon as he showed up, except I didn't care before, either, and I sure as hell don't care now. The only remotely interesting character was Oscar Isaacs and he turned out to be an idiot.
There's a lot more of lazy fanboy-exploiting money-grubbing recycled story beats I could lament, along with the ridiculous "Leia Poppins" scene that everyone else is howling in resigned laughter about on YouTube, along with the tacked-on, totally unnecessary b-plot to give what's-his-name and Artoo, Jr. something to do, but you, dear reader, must have got the point by this time.
I saw "Star Wars" in the theater in 1977 and loved it with all the passion of which a five-year-old is capable. Now I want it dead.
I'm rooting for the Empire.