Nothing less than a deliberate insult to Star Wars fans

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2017)

Having been a SW fan for nearly 40 years myself and my son were desperately looking forward to the new film. Went in spoiler-free and with low expectations following the underwhelming TFA two years ago. I had goosebumps with the opening scrawl and theme music (as always) but things went badly wrong almost immediately.
The sight of Ade Edmondson as a First Order officer standing next to Hux was the first red-flag. Hux and his whole 'comedy' routine with Poe was the next. The rest of the movie is a slow motion space chase interspersed with a truly boring and terribly designed pointless side quest. I could go on at considerable length regarding the rest of the film as almost every scene was problematic.
There was one memorable special effects scene where the visual spectacle itself is impressive, but that is countered immediately by the serious 'in-movie' rule-breaking that it's existence produces.
The prequels had at least tried (and failed) to be good films, but some of the faults of this film were deliberately made and the destruction it has now wrought on the entire SW saga is catastrophic. That's it for me, SW is finished.