Nearly Everything is Wrong

Rating: 2/10 (26 December 2017)

The jokes are too frequent and aren't funny. Scenes that are intense and emotional are broken up by these unfunny jokes that ruin the mood of the scene. The first act/first third of the movie was boring and should have been condensed or changed entirely. The First Order's incapacity, inability and ineffectiveness is laughable. They can't stop 1 fighter from taking out their somehow easily blown-up laser cannons. 1 or 2 shots makes each turret explode? The Resistance can outrun them with severely depleted and minimal resources, and escape without them noticing or caring? This honestly makes no logical sense unless The First Order just wanted to play games with the Resistance. Rose Tico is an uninteresting and unnecessary character, and her side plot with Finn was dumb, uninteresting and useless. The subplot on Canto Bight was so short, and as stated before, dumb, uninteresting and useless, it should have been cut from the movie. I think the subplot had to do more with animal cruelty and orphans more than Star Wars; I'm not against important messages in movies, but make sure they're done well and fit the franchise, movie plot, characters, etc. Leia flying through space was the dumbest and one of the most laughable parts of this movie. It is so unrealistic and silly looking it is truly cringe worthy. The people on the ship don't act surprised, like she's done this before, and what she did is never explained or mentioned again. Admiral Ackbar's death is shown to be so small, insignificant and stupid, it is truly an insult to any Star Wars fan. A "man" who helped command and guide the Rebel fleet to defeat The Empire is killed by 2 random TIE fighters. They didn't have to kill him off for the story or overall plot, but they did. There's no problem with that, but give him the heroic death he really deserves, send him off in a respectable and proper way. Captain Phasma is one of the most underused and laughable characters ever. She has special armor, looks intimidating, and talks dauntingly, but nothing she ever does is worthwhile or even remotely useful. She could have been such a powerful and important character, but this movie wasted her to the worst degree. Luke in The TLJ is not the Luke we knew in the Original Trilogy at all. It's okay for him to be different, but he seems to be a totally different character altogether. HE trains Rey, but she somehow knows how to use the force perfectly and pretty well considering she didn't know what it was and had no formal training prior; she didn't believe in Luke Skywalker until a little while before. This movie is a train-wreck through and through; from the characters, to the plot, to the force, to the jokes, it is a mess that didn't know what it wanted to be. The first 30 seconds of A New Hope has seemingly been turned into it's own movie except with new characters in a different time period. Disappointing.