The Force has left the building....

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2018)

This movie is the result of to many peer group surveys being applied to something original and good. The first 10 minutes I hoped I was caught in a really wicked commercial that wanted to make fun of Star Wars fans. But it was real. This is a movie worth not seeing. If you love Star Wars like I did, don't watch it. It is like revisiting one of the magic places of your childhood to learn that reality has turned it into landfill.
I had hoped for so much in this movie. A deep story focussing on the transition of the Jedi order from Luke to the pretty girl Rey who is now the last Jedi.
But everything this movie tries is left unfinished. You don't understand the Force better after watching it. You don't know what really went down with Luke. Well, in the end he at least get's a proper end. But in more detail * spoilers ahead * :
The pace does not fit the story. The story is as thin as paper. The characters - especially the big bad sith lord - are underdeveloped... and the movie had the time to develop them. But it was busy doing useless stuff like messing with physics.
Star Wars was always liberal with physics and space as a medium. But this flic just set a new bar for ridiculous. Come on. Ballistic projectile curves in space?? Bombs that fall out of a spacecraft like out of a B52?? SERIOUSLY??? Well, perhaps the big ship was so big... nah, I don't want to get into this.
This movie even desecrated the concept of the Force. The Force always had limits. It was not an every handy, all you just need superpower. This time, it projects Lukes image across stars, lets dice vanish, Kylo and Rey see each other whenever conveniently wanted by the bad guy - or themselves. Leia can save herself from exposure to vacuum. Well, hey, it's the Force. I am sure teleportation is next.
The battle of Kylo with his inner demons.... well, let's just say it is extremely hard to see this character as anything than a guy with a pretty hard puberty phase. He's as credible as a villain as a 14 year old.
The final sacrilege of this unworthy marketing/merchandise trash compilation for Marvel fans is that Master Yoda speaks the final sentence totally out of his usual style - in a grammatically lamely correct way.
But that I may have gotten wrong. By that time I was already halfway out of the theater. And I don't know if I want to ever watch another Star Wars movie. This one kind of killed the magic.
I almost expect a cameo appearance of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the upcoming Han Solo movie. Rouges helping Rouges - so why not. Sure the crowds will love it.