Should not be Star Wars canon...

Rating: 3/10 (15 December 2017)

Not sure how this movie has received such strong reviews from critics. I am utterly disappointed.
As others have mentioned, the story and plot/subplots are very weak, full of holes, and around 1.5 hours of the movie seems to be extraneous, out of context, and just poorly scripted.
This movie completely lacks the 'epic' feel of the rest of the Star Wars series. The characters, universe and mythology have been mostly ignored and replaced with a Disney/Marvel feel, almost as if somebody in the production team felt that Star Wars would be better as 'Guardians of the Galaxy', complete with corny jokes and comedy creatures... I mean, why not just have the 'team' search for an Infinity stone and hook up with the rest of the crew in the next Avengers movie (I'm guessing that's probably crossed the minds of the studio execs).
There was so much potential for this movie... so much opportunity wasted.
In summary, this is VERY poor fan-faction which is an injustice to the SW universe and characters that Lucas and his team spent so many years developing and refining. It's a travesty that this movie was released and it really should not be included as Star Wars canon.