They are just trying to recycle star wars, not improve and continue it

Rating: 3/10 (8 August 2018)

SPOILERS BEWARE
Film Starts, the text makes sense, and I am excited, the cinema give a loud roar of agreement as the title rolls, we have a good audience of true fans, all adults no kids. nice.
Now tjhere are little things that i didnt like but looked past, I was ewnjoying this film as a whole up to the end and it is a pity as the ending ruined what was a generally good film for all.
so, the first order can track through hyperspace now, so it means that you cannot hide no longer from them, so that's an issue for the resistance who half way though are now calling themselves rebels again, ok continuity guys make your mind up. Hux/Gleeson turns up looking like palpatine/evil anakin with his weird no sleep eyes and looks like he has aged 20 years since the last film and acts like a panto version of moff tarkin, i will tell you now this film does still copy the original films as if it doesn't notice it for some reason, very strange.
Good actors bad writing in this one.
a plan to take down a dreadnaught backfires, but the moment the tie fighter crashes into the first bomber, i say, sods law i bet a chain reaction makes it crash and blow up all the others all leave just one left, yep low and behold there we go, they all blow up and it leave ones bomber resting with the whole mission on it shoulders in a cliche ending. annoying but oh well nothing major, watch on.
leia is hurt, good little ren scene there, but she uses the force to save herself...so she could have saved crew members, family members, her love of her life Han, but no she uses the first the only time - to selfishly sav herself...feel really sorry that they made leia a useless and now selfish evil person after her death. very silly, but still i dont care about leias character, she turned to drugs and plastic surgery after star wars anyway so i didnt care if they even killed her off before the new ones started.
then there is the whole modern version of dagobah with rey and luke, i actually didnt mind any of it, it has an okay twist with the old and the new, and i have to think that luke has gone a little senile like yoda did when he exiled himself also, loneliness makes you weird we all know this. its not that bad, all little things that still make for a generally good movie.
then fin and rose, rose is horrible character and actor, she cries alot, does nothing really, tell finn she loves him when we all thought him and rey would get together so that gets awkward for the rest of the film too...and makes no sense, unless she and kylo will be an item....i think not....
ruined reys back story, if that is true what she is told, she does not deny it though....amazing scene with kylo and ray and lightsabers, loved it. you learn nothing aboujt snoke and then jsut like that he is gone....ruined that, but still was not too bothered in the overall story of the film so its still ok.
yoda force ghost appears in full colour cgi/puppet....when all the previous force ghosts were a blue tint....so again why ignore the contiuity like that, looked horrible, but it was an ok scene and i understand the ideas behind it.
lots more stuff that annooys you after this but they are all small in compairsson to the one thing that ruins it.
Luke kills himself and there is no reason for it and it ruins star wars, he projects himself as a entity to the battleground, fights kylo in a distraction with no real effort, and supposedly the effort to do that, means he sits on a rock and disspears like ben kenobi...i said if they copy it and do a ben kenobi i am out of here, and then they did....
he didn't need to die, there was no reason why it had to take all his effort to project himself across space using the force, and now who trains rey, probably a force ghost of luke.
I think they were more interested in trying to set up a longer range of films for after this as at the end, there is a decimated rebel alliance, a more powerful unaffected first order, all the originals are gone, nothing was explained, and they now have to start all over again. with one film to go they are going to try and tell the whole story all over again? that will not work, i think there will be an announcement now of 10, 11 and 12 episodes its so obvious.
so a flawed but generally awesome film, that explains nothing and resets everything it starts, that ruins itself at the end by making a useless unmeaningful death that actually removes all hope from the franchise.
i have noticed all the most recent reviews of people who actually watched it are all very low, and it was all the early previews/premiere day with the good reviews, that were probably paid for reviews to give it a buffer of good scores at the start, reviews are so fake/doctored these days at the release