An unmitigated disaster

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2018)

Congratulations to Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy, and Bob Iger. You have all dumped gasoline on one of the most beloved saga's in the history of film and set it ablaze. Here are some thoughts and questions from 150 of the longest minutes of my life:
1.) Poe's prank call to Hux, Luke milking a space cow, Snoke admonishing Kylo on his ridiculous mask - play them one after the other and you have a robot chicken montage.
2.) the purple haired admiral surpassed Jar Jar Binks as the most annoying and pointless character in the entire saga (no small feat)
3.) Princess Lea flying through space? *palm to forehead*
4.) Space Vegas: What the hell was the point of Benecio's character? or Finn and Rose's mission? or releasing those horse creatures? ug.
5.) Yoda is cool with destroying the last remnants of the Jedi movement he spent hundreds of years defending? Yeah, ok.
6.) So much for learning more about Snoke's backstory. What a waste of screen time on a character that had the potential to be interesting. Instead he turns out to be a poorly written, poor man's Palpatine with a half assed character arc.
7.) Rey's wooden acting continues to make Hayden Christensen look like an Oscar winner.
8.) I really feel bad for Chewbacca. At least Han, Leia, Luke and Admiral Ackbar have been put out of their misery. Poor Chewey has to suffer through another movie.
Critics giving this movie positive reviews are just mindless NPC hacks. Rian Johnson & Kathleen Kennedy can whine and call fans misogynists all they want, the fact is they re just not very good at their jobs. They both should be fired and run out of town on a rail for this disaster, but Bob Iger probably gave them big raises. I really wish negative stars were an option, but I'll settle for one star.