Age of Ultron meets Scary Movie

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2017)

There are thousands of excellently written reviews out there from Star War fans and movie critics. I wish I had something good to say about TLJ but the more I think about it, the more profound I fear the damage was.
The basic premise behind these movies is that there is an explicit representation of evil in contrast to that of a good one while the main character struggles to choose what is right. In TLJ the image of evil was safely represented by Snoke. He was mysterious had enormous potential for mayhem. What I now wonder is how the came up with such a unique name.. I can almost picture the meeting:
"OK people, how are we going to name our Sith Lord. We need something unique and memorable that will strike fear into the hearts of men!"
Everyone turns their head to Lukas. But he is completely immersed in a sketch. Something resembling a cute penguin but with much bigger eyes.
"....."
Rian frowns "George...?"
"Yeah?"
"Any ideas?"
"Sorry, about what?"
Rian closes his eyes. You can tell he is counting down from five as he breathes in.
"We need a name for our Sith Lord, something that everyone can be afraid of! Something that..."
"hmmm..." Lukas is seen scribbling a few squiggly lines on a Post-It. It appears like a tree, an apple, and two stick figures next to a snake sticking out her tongue.
"What about Snoke?" Says George with the look of a man that has given up on everything he once held dear.
"Snoke...!?"
The entire room goes dead quiet. Half the people are shocked, while the others try to contain their laughter.
"GOD DAMN IT GEORGE! That is genius! I knew I could count on you. What other ideas do you have?"
THE END.
So anyway, since I wasted most of your time on that little gag, I will now cut to the point. The main problem with this movie is that by getting rid of Snoke and introducing all those one-liners between Hux and Kylo, they effectively destroy the representation of Evil within the film. None of the characters left can or will ever be able to pull it off because we all saw what is under the hood. Kylo and the Order are powerful, sure. But they are in no way scary, nor will they ever be. Kylo was supposed to evolve into pure Evil. The type whose only flaw is taking too much pleasure in the pain of others. Instead, we got parody from a guy that is way too fond of Scary Movies.