What a sad ending of a childhood dream

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2017)

I am in my 30s, and when I was a kid my dad made me see the original star wars trilogy.
My dad has always been a kind-of-serious guy, but even him fell in love with the mystery, the creatures, the lore and story of those movies.
Star wars always had a special place in my heart, even after growing up.
I hated the prequel movies, but then I got some hopes high 2 years ago when I saw the force awakens.
It was not a perfect movie, all the opposite. It had big plot holes, it had 0 originality, and some choices really pissed me off (no reunion of Luke and Han? not even for a scene? Rey crying with Leia about Han after just meeting them for a few days while chewie, long time friend of them both, was on the side? no Luke intervention until the last scene?).
However even with its flaws it restored a bit of faith in me in the franchise, it managed to deliver some of those childhood feelings that I thought lost, and overall gave me some hope for the following movie to truly deliver the sequel that I was waiting for for so many years.
And what a disappointment this has been.
Every single choice and scene in this movie has been just terribly bad.
It's a star wars movie, it's a fantasy movie, I am ready to believe a lot of crazy things to happen if they can at least be written somehow with a little coherence, but the writing in this movie has really reached the worst possible level.
From the first scene where one single tiny xwing alone handle half of the enemy gigantic fleet, I started already had a really bad feeling.
So many things are just so incredibly stupid.
Leia becoming an immortal superhero that can survive deep space.
Luke, a living legend that we have waited 30 years to see again just reduced to a grumpy old man with incoherent motivations, out-of-character actions and dialogs.
Rey, the perfect, flawless lady hero that can master the force without any training.
The bad guy, so anonymous that nobody will ever know who he was, what he wanted, where he came from. 0 Depth, 0 background, 0 anything.
The whole plotline of the spaceship fuel, completely , absolutely stupid. Why the empire could just not send one of the ships ahead with lightspeed?
Why, if one single ship entering lightspeed could destroy the whole fleet, didn't the rebel do it before we lost every single one of them?
Why making such a big deal for the admiral the death of the admiral flying the carrier if she already 4 scenes before was clearly doing the bait and sacrificing herself anyway?
What about the whole idea of one single empire ship keeping a lightspeed-capable tracker? They mention that if they would have found out that it was destroyed, they would have immediately replace it with one from another ship. But why they could just not keep multiple ones activated at the same time? Were they running on an energy-saving budget?
What about the whole useless casino plotline, so much wasted time to simply result in the discovery of the rebel camouflage and the death of all rebels?
What about the nonsense of Luke's death, unexplained, unnecessary.
What about all those forced jokes and laugh moments, that were completely out of context?
What about the decision to make fun of the empire from the first scene where you see the enemy admiral? How can it make a serious, threatening menace if its mocked in that ridicolous way?
I understand that Disney and the directors/writers wanted to open up star wars to a newer and younger audience, and I understand that sometimes you need to accept that some things change and go with that.
I am not against change, when it's for the better, or at least when its at least justified and coherent.
But so many things have been done wrong with this movie, so many things were simply forced completely out of place purely to go with that distorted direction.
They managed to kill everything that made star wars special, and even to kill any hype for the next movies.
Congratulations.