What on earth happened?

Rating: 4/10 (17 February 2018)

This was the movie where the new trilogy had to come into its own, and God knows Johnson tried (even though the skeleton is Empire Strikes Back), but like the prequels it fails.
Unlike the prequels the fault is not in the direction or the acting, but solely with the script.
The plotholes are so huge you can drive several tanker trucks through them - sideways. Character motivations are practically non-existent or are so horribly shallowly explained they don't resonate at all, and the force is now basically a deux ex machina where characters can pull force powers of hitherto unseen or unheard of strengths out of nowhere simply to facilitate the plot - or get the writer out of a sticky situation.
Add to that a subplot that goes nowhere and means nothing, simply to have specific characters in a specific location at a specific time, and you've got nothing short of a contrived mess of a script.
This is a shame as this movie has a lot of potential and with a better thought out script could have been really good.
Now I can only feel for the poor people who has to make a conclusion to this mess.
With all that said, I did find it entertaining, but only when I shut my brain off...