What happens when Star Wars tries to be a Marvel movie

Rating: 6/10 (1 January 2019)

The story pics up right where Episode 7 leaves off but with a different director. A director who seemed more concerned about corny one liners of the sarcastic tone that felt very Avengers like. The movie starts off with Poe in his little X-wing fighter taking on an entire Imperial fleet. Poe gets into a tit-for-tat with the admiral that may as well have had Poe say "Dorks say what?" with the admiral saying "what?". Too sophomoric for a Star Wars film.
Meanwhile, Rey is with Luke and we see the conclusion of the exchange at the end of Episode 7. Luke takes the light saber and tosses it over his head. He says "The Jedi must die" all because he messed up while training Kylo Ren. Rey and Kylo start talking to each other telepathically and she thinks she can save him kind of like Luke with Vader.
Rey leaves to confront Kylo but is tortured by Snoke, he's very much Emperor like. Kylo kills Snoke to save Rey and Rey helps him kill all his Imperial guards. Rey then rejects Kylo's proposal to help destroy the Rebels. She escapes and sets out to help as the Rebels are set to be destroyed. Enter Luke who takes on the entire Imperial army while the rebels escape. He allows Kylo Ren to kill him ala Darth Vader killing Obi Won. Except its a hologram as Luke is sitting on a rock like Rafiki from the Lion King in his meditation pose. It takes all of him to make this happen though and he really dies. At the end we see a bunch of children telling stories of the Rebels and Luke Skywalker so the rebellion lives on!
The movie was entertaining but there were a lot of crappy parts like ghost Princess Leia floating through space like Mary Poppins. The scene made no sense since Leia has never shown Jedi powers before and the CGI was bad. I didn't have as big a problem with the ending as others but I think there could have been a better outcome.