I FUNDAMENTALLY AGREE WITH MARK HAMILL!

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2017)

*** There be spoilers ahead! ***
With the first scene of Luke and Rey - picking up exactly where TFA ended - I KNEW this movie was in trouble and definitely "had a bad feeling about this". So I'm in complete agreement with what Mark Hamill and many of my fellow reviewer have expressed: Rian Johnson got the characterization of Luke and some of the others WRONG.
Did Johnson ever (even care to) watch and study the earlier films, the original trilogy in particular? Or even Rogue One which, immediately after I saw it, I considered it a GENUINE "Star Wars" movie and an excellent prequel to "A New Hope". In fairness to this movie, it WAS good to see Luke, Leia, Chewy, C-3PO, R2-D2 and even BB-8 onscreen again. Heck, I even sorta liked the Porgs!
Here's my overall take-away from this film: What Luke immediately did with his old lightsabre forewarned the ever-downward trajectory of my hopes for TLJ the movie. But in the big picture - i.e., the 40-year history of the Star Wars iconic, canonical lore - it showed me that apparetly the Star Wars franchise baton has been wrongly passed onto incompetent and flippantly disrespectful "leaders" who don't deserve it. George, you shouldn't have sold out. :-(