Sigh what the f**k, Disney?

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2018)

Okay so right off the bat, I am not a die hard star wars fan. I simply enjoy them as good entertainment and good movies. I am not this die hard fan who collects star wars merchandise or care much about the EU. I am more fan of other stuff, but star wars never captured me the same way it did with the others. Why do I say this? Because its an incredible achievement for me to be this much extremely disappointed in a franchise that I don't care much about.
Okay so before we go into why this piece of junk sucks, there are some positive elements:
1- The technicality is indeed impressive. This is probably the best star wars film in visual style, and choreogrpahy as well as special effects. It effortlessly combines CGI with puppetry and looks very real and convincing.
2- Most of the performances were pretty solid and on point. Daisy Ridley gives a good performance that makes her poorly written character somewhat likable. Mark Hamill does his best to bring Luke Skywalker in a different light and succeeds. And that's about it.
Now about why this movie sucks: it is laughably written, so lazy and so poor that I am stunned by some people who defend this piece of shit WHILE attacking the haters. Now I am not against anyone's opinion, if you like this movie, that's totally fine. But by god is the writing here atrocious. Any kind of depth, motivation, backstory or basic writing for a movie is a big middle finger to anyone searching for any hint of the questions left from the previous movies. Remember how Rey wanted to know about her parents? Thrown out of the window in the most lazy form of writing. Speaking of Rey, yeah she is a Mary Sue, still perfect and achieves training very easy without any form of hardship whatsoever. And my god, what they did to Luke was just.....ugh. I mean I can understand they want to take the character in a different path, but there is absolutely no proper explanation for this sudden shift of the character. It gives you just headlines but no actual context of why he hates the jedi, why he wants to kill Kylo Ren (which is bullshit btw). The writers never thought of proper motivations. Kylo Ren is an emo kid with barely any memorable motivations.
And for Snoke, yeah this has to be one of the most boring, unoriginal and unimaginative villains in a blockbuster film. Just some guy want to rule with an iron fist but no backstory, no proper motivation etc. And yeah, while palpatine was mostly a character that wasn't written well, at least he had a much better personality. He was menacing but fragile. Over the top but devilish. Snoke is just a gimmick.
Now if you're a star wars geek, chances are you gonna either like it (which is in the minority most likely) or gonna REALLY hate it. I'm not a geek myself of this series like I said, but there is so much disrespect and complete screw ups with the continuity that makes you facepalm or cringe. One example is when Luke is found by Rey in the island and then tells her to leave him alone, yet in the force awakens he had a map for people to find him in case the galaxy was in danger again. Yeah apparently Disney doesn't even care about their own continuity either. And another thing for example is The force which isn't ambiguous anymore. Remember when ghost Yoda and Obi Wan appeared, you couldn't tell if they are actually real or just a psychological attachment from the characters? Yeah now Yoda is actually solid. I mean actually solid as in he can hit you and you can feel it. And can summon lightning from the sky. Um......what? I know it doesn't matter to critics or online youtubers, but for people who do follow this franchise will be disappointed.
So yeah this movie is mostly flashy spectacle over substance. It may be the reason why this movie is breaking billions at the box office. After all, most audiences don't care about film quality anymore.