Not the best star wars film

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2018)

There's a lot of hate for this film, calling it the worse movie ever etc. This is clearly not the case, it's just blind hatred. The film has some good things but also many problems that prevent it being as good as it could have been.
-Princess Leia flying through space is the worst scene in any star wars film. I took a mark off just for that scene. It simply shouldn't have happened. No further comment needed.
-Luke is not luke anymore. While it's fair that he would change after 30 years in isolation, turning him into a miserable old hermit wasn't a good way to do it. i grew up watching the prequels, which had their flaws, but if i was a kid now i don't think this luke would make me fall in love with star wars.
-Snoke is utterly wasted, killing him off without developing him is simply bad film writing. The idea of Kylo Ren betraying him is a good one, but not without developing snoke first. I think this scene should have been done late on in the film after more snoke development, which would have made episode 9 seem more intriguing.
-Finn is wasted on a stupid love story with Rose. Rose is the worst character in any star wars film, there's no reason for her to exist. I put Rose below Jar Jar on the basis Jar Jar was meant to be a joke character, Rose is not.
-Holdo was an unnecessary character. I did not think she was such a terrible character as others made out, she reminded me of arrogant, not very nice bosses at work (we've all met those.) in that sense she's quite realistic. I wouldn't have wanted to see more of her than we did so it's good they killed her off.
-The film ignores too much canon. Yoda destroying stuff with force lighting is a big example, it quite clearly states in "the empire strikes back" force ghosts cannot do this. It would be ridiculous if they could, since they could just take out the whole first order that way.
-Rey is a Mary Sue, however much they deny it. She has amazing abilities in all fields without training and she never makes mistakes. This does not make her an interesting character.
Positives;
-Special effects and action sequences are excellent. Scenes like Holdos sacrifice and the approaching imperial walkers looked gorgeous.
-Johnson tried to take the story in new directions, which in some ways worked. Reducing the screentime of characters like C-3P0 and Chewbacca is a good step, as much as we love them we've seen enough of them.
-Ren's character arc was excellent and his connection with Rey was interesting.
-The film shows characters aren't perfect (except Rey.) Luke isn't perfect, Poe isn't perfect, Even Leia isn't perfect.
Ultimately though the films biggest failing is that it doesn't leave you excited for the next episode, it just leaves you indifferent. Perhaps future movies will make this one better.