Disappointed...

Rating: 4/10 (13 December 2017)

While I do agree with the other reviews in the sense that the movie is stunning, creative and beautiful, and the acting is superb, I still can't ignore the massive amount of plot-holes, we encounter during this movie...
1) Snoke, the main villain, the Supreme Leader of the First Order, and how they didn't use him, nor explain him in any way. While I am satisfied, that they didn't turn him into a replacement Palpatine, I can't help, but feel saddened by how they cut him off (literally) from the movie, without any proper introduction. We see his extreme power with the Force, and we see him as a scarred, deformed old man, with no mercy intended for anyone. Yet, even though there has been two years worth of theories and conspiracies, it isn't explained in the movie who he is, how he has gotten so powerful with the Force, nor how he was able to connect Rey to Kylo without knowing, where she was...
2) The dreadnought, the ship that could take down fleets, seen as a massive victory to the Resistance, served no other purpose than to display Poe's already proven skills as a pilot and reckless nature. His demotion had no effect on the plot, as he was still outranked by Holdo and she would still have the ability to ignore him. Furthermore, the dreadnought's "Death Star-like" weak point, where a single bombing run could take it out completely seemed a bit too convenient.
3) Leia's immediate mastery of the Force, saving her at the last minute, despite us never having seen anything like that from her at this point in the movie. Seemed a bit too convenient, and is not looked further into by the characters, nor is it explained at any other point. And yes, I am aware of the fact she would've inherited the same powers as Luke, but we aren't told if she even trained beforehand...
4) The codebreaker/slicer, who Finn and Rose were intended to recruit in the casino, wasn't used in any way, despite Maz (who served absolutely no purpose in the film) praising him to the skies, which lead to them conveniently meeting someone else with more or less the same skills, who'd betray them, and then run away, with no closure whatsoever on that point.
5) Rey mentioning how Luke having cut his connection with the Force, yet he is able to project an image of himself across untold distances. This one doesn't bother me as much as the other things, but it is up there...
While I do hope a lot of these things are explained in the ninth movie, I still find it annoying how many of the things, we have been looking forward to finding out, aren't even touched upon properly...