The movie was a disappointment, and unintelligent.

Rating: 2/10 (16 January 2018)

The positive reviews will try to convince you that a flip flopping storyline like this is Super intelligent, and is thought provoking.
However, I am here to say that it feels more like the director rolled dice to see what would happen. Almost every time they set up something to happen, the next scene cuts itself short. Not once in this movie was there any payoff.
Characters go on quests, fight, and die for what seems like a pointless waste of time. The set up character arcs that are never advanced, and others never needed to exist. Some of the characters just a few days after episode 7 seem to suddenly be masters of subjects they know nothing about. Finn can now pilot with no training, and Rey can do everything she needs to with the force without any effort. Rey didn't even learn anything from Luke.
Now I'm not saying its necessarily a bad thing that Rey is more powerful than Luke, but does he really have to not teach her anything? Where is the Wise Luke we knew from Return of The Jedi? Why the hell would he turn a Saber on his sleeping nephew? (his best friend's and his sister's son.) Luke was the guy who risked everything for the second most evil man in the galaxy, his Father. like WTF?
Many people have been waiting to see this character again for 30+ years, and this is what you give them?
Sure I can understand that Disney didn't want the old characters to get in the way of the new heroes, but there were so many other ways to handle Lukes character that didn't require him to be a Grumpy old man who gave up on his family and friends, and spent at least a decade on an Island alone because he wanted to die.
Some would say that he wanted to die because of what he did to Ben Solo, but I would argue that Luke would never have done that in the first place. Even if he did, he would have done his best to make things right over the years.
Star Wars used to be about the bond between family and friends, and how important those bonds are. Now its about how people are losers, how they become losers, and how some losers are sometimes cowards too. Its about how people are two faced, stupid, and secretive towards their second in command. Its about how important it is to follow leadership blindly. Its about almost killing the one you love, instead of self sacrifice for you friends. Its about the mistreated race horses, and not the slave children. Its about how stupid evil people are, and about how violence is the right answer to everything (talking about how Rey responds to every doubt of hers). Its about how nobody needs to put in effort because when someone else does the work for you, you get better grades. Its about killing the old Star Wars, because you know the fans won't let it die.
While this movie has great special effects, it is boring, flip flopping, uninspired and outright disrespectful to the previous heroes of the story. The director had no idea about what story he was trying to portray, and so he took everything set up by the previous movie, and answered them in the easiest way possible, left them out entirely, or killed them off before you could get an answer. The force now feels more like Dungeons and Dragon's magic, instead of how mythical and faith based it was in the previous movies.
When you use a character whose arc is complete, like Luke, there is no need to reset them to square one. You can let them pass on their knowledge, and blessing to the new heroes instead.
when you have a series of movies with a huge fan-base, the fan-base has certain expectations from that series. When you betray the core of it, of course people are gonna be upset. This movie does just that. Betrayed our trust.
Tried to be something it never was, nor was ever meant to be, and lost its life in the process.
What a disappointment.