Overhyped junk

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2017)

Seeing almost universally extatic reviews I decided to go see this second installment in the 3rd (!) Star Wars trilogy and boy was it an experience.
This movie is a mix of all of the things that I hate about Hollywood and studio executives messing with movies nowadays. Like half of the military and resistance being women (I understand and support gender equality, but for f... sake, army and fighting in general has always been a domain of men), new cute creatures to sell more toys, half of the movie being hit or miss jokes, 'epic' CGI spaceship battles which are just boring as hell to be honest and the biggest sin of all - the story. It sucks! I was not invested in it, I didn't know what's going on and frankly, I didn't give a crap, because I was half asleep and bored to death!
I've also had high hopes for Rian Jonson. I absolutely adored Looper, but here it seems like Disney smashed his vision to fit the movie in this new refreshed Star Wars formula that they came up with. Cinematography is ok, music is present, etc. These are the things that you expect from mediocre sci-fi movie. Star Wars should be exceptional though and it's not.
4/10