A Badly Written Badly Scripted Badly Cast Complete Mess Of A Film

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2017)

This is probably the weakest film of the year. It managed to disrespect its own audience by ignoring the established conventions of this film series. Did no one do their research?
For example, it was the first Star Wars film to have bad language in it. The word 'bastard' appears in the dialogue. It was the first to have no proper pacing of the story or the scenes. It was also riddled with plot holes and poorly thought out from the start. Story wise, it didn't seem to follow the previous film in the series. Also several actors were miscast.
John Boyega was terrible in the film. He seemed to be having too much fun in the filming process instead of turning in a performance that respected the series and the audience. Boyega seemed completely out of his depth and turned in a performance that was completely devoid of any gravity. In fact he was just one dimensional and annoying from start to finish. So was Oscar Issacs who was instantly forgettable. He had no charisma whatsoever.
None of the characters were properly developed in this film and Luke Skywalker returns as a completely different character to his previous incarnation in the film series.
Sad to say but Carrie Fisher delivered the weakest performance of her career and talked like Richard Nixon throughout the film. Her character was never developed in these new films and it is impossible to empathize with her or any other character as they are just cardboard cutouts or shadows of something that has come before.
I was amazed that this film was ever released as it should not have been due to the poor quality. Disney don't seem to do quality control. This will be the last Star Wars movie that I attend. Good Riddance!