So uncivilized (this is more of a short critique than a review)

Rating: 3/10 (22 February 2019)

For a Star Wars movie to be worse in 2017 than all of the prequels is pretty shocking. It's one thing to gripe with artistic decisions made by Johnson. For example, I'm not gonna score the movie low cause I think Luke's character was ruined. I'm scoring it low because that decision isn't substantiated by anything that makes logical sense. This is a running theme by the way. Stuff just happens, that on its own would be dumb anyways, but there isn't even a valid reason. Why does Holdo keep the plan secret? Why does Luke borderline murder his own nephew but wouldn't murder his father, arguably the most powerful darkside user of all time? How is Rey the most powerful force user of all time, based off of clear observations anyways? How does Snoke not detect Kylo's betrayal? Who is Snoke? Why does Leia demonstrate a tremendous feat of force capabilities only for no one to talk about or for her to use it again? This movie does not take you in any direction that means anything. The most important part is Luke's death. If you look at every character's arc from before this movie and after, nothing has happened. Snoke never even had an arc or explanation so him being gone already means nothing.
People say this movie "subverts your expectations" therefore it's good. No, it's not good if the only way it can subvert your expectations is by self-destructing its plot for the sake of shock-value. The Empire Strikes Back is sucessfully subversive. The way you can tell is because after finishing it you want to watch Episode 6 to see what happens to everyone. This movie doesn't make you want to see Episode 9. It makes you straight up not care about any of the characters because now they all suck because they have no arcs and can literally just be anyone. No one cares. Trilogy's ruined. It's a shame cause JJ did a decent job.
We're all better off pretending it all ended with the Ewoks throwing a rager in the trees.
0/10