Follows a bit the SW feeling, but is not a good SW film.

Rating: 4/10 (21 December 2017)

I was worried about SW saga, when Disney took over the SW brand.
Disney is THE amazing firm to create a marvellous/amazing fantasy story... but not so good to TAKE AN ALREADY amazing story and move it forwards...
...First of all, seriously BAD CHOICE of Director & Writer!!! I checked their previous works and... seriously? These people to deal with a SW saga tittle???? It's like me (a 25+ years experience designer) to tell me to take over a... finance company to WallStreet! These people were NOT CAPABLE to direct or WRITE a good SW story...
So, the BIG ISSUE of this SW is the SUPER SIMPLE & SILLY storyline/plot/scenario! C'mon... even my young daughter could write a better (far better) scenario. Why Disney didn't hired a SW "fan-boy" (so many millions fanatics around the world) and he/she would write an amazing story - not this stupid, boring story.
Few (or a lot) reasons, that ruined this film - and probably the next following SW tittles:
1. Silly, boring, flat story
A space... race to no where, when the Imperials found the Rebels during... light speed (seriously? Not even a five years old would thought that silly thing)... but they continue their attack to Rebels with... cruising speed for 2 film's hours!!!!!
Fin and Rose left the Rebel fleet... to go somewhere else to find someone to break the code... and they returning back to the space-chase! Oh, c'mon, will you?!
POINTLESS and BORING story. Disney proved that they know to create their OWN FANTASY stories but they CAN'T CONTINUE OTHERS' (Lucas) stories...
2. Unbelievable spoiling GOOD characters (killing them)
Killing Snoke? And LIKE THAT? Why the hell for???? You have a GREAT EVIL character to DEVELOP HIM FURTHER... and you ruining him like that??? A so powerful evil Sith Lord... and he didn't figure out the... turning light-saber next to him??????? Seriously???
Killing Phasma??? WHY? Another great evil character to develop further... and your ruined her LIKE THAT? Not even an epic end, just that stupid scene? WHY?
3. Destroying COMPLETELY Luke Skywalker's character
Okay... I understand... you want to wipe-out the past and delete the previous characters (H.Ford demanded to "kill" Han Solo, and we saw it), you killed Luke, obviously Leia too in the next SW (since the actress passed away). WHY YOU RUINED/DESTROYED Luke's character like that??? Not only how you "ended him", but... you ruined what Luke is all about: a true unique "PALADIN KNIGHT", pure honest, pure good, he resisted to Emperor, to his father THE ULTIMATE Force-Man Anakin-Darth Vader... he didn't killed almost nobody in Juba's lair...
...and you make him to try to ASSASSIN HIS NEPHEW IN HIS SLEEP??????
Seriously???????... WHAT "GENIUS" thought that????
You totally destroyed what Luke is - you made him stupid. And... why he didn't fell to the Dark Side, since he tried to MURDER A TEEN student (Ben Solo)?????
4. Ray
C'mon, will you?...
Anakin Skywalker is the ULTIMATE CHARACTER in a films' Saga. He's the ultimate hero-anti-hero, the "Sophocles Oedipus" of StarWars...
He took A LIFE TIME to became the powerful Jedi-SITH he became!
Luke, his soon, too... almost a life time to become the Master Jedi he did...
...And Ray took ... a weekend in the island... to became the MOST POWERFUL JEDI ever lived?????? SERIOUSLY????? What are we, MORONS???
To WHOM you made this film and character (Ray), to NEW YOUNG BOYS they never ever watched SW film before??????
Ray became... Darth-Vader...Anakin...Luke...Yoda... combined all of them together!!!! I don't know why she couldn't just... wipe out the entire "First Order" fleet just with her mind - they (Disney) probably left that to the next Episode!
SERIOUSLY?????? A junk-rider young girl... transformed in a weekend... to the most powerful FORCE person of the Galaxy????? Without a SINGLE training?
She took over 3-4 WELL TRAINED Pretorian Guards??????? And also stood hard against a... well trained Jedi-Sith like Ren????????? Seriously?????
5. Kylo Ren
You didn't developed him further. You just left him as he was/is. And HE IS THE ONLY "EVIL" CHARACTER LEFT in these new SW Episodes!!!!! WHY?
You just made (the actor) to ...work out a lot and create a muscular body, thats all!
Personally, I think THIS character (Kylo Ren) is the MOST BORING Sith Lord I ever saw or could imagine!... We had Darth Vader, back then? Well, Kylo Ren is like comparing a... Fiat (him) car to... a Ferrari (Vader)!!!!!
6. ALMOST TOTALY LACK OF THE FORCE
Okay, we saw SOME Force in this movie... but almost the entire movie all the "Force Characters" where fighting each other like... LA Gang members, not like Force-Persons!!!!! WTF, Disney???? We didn't see ANYTHING!
We SUPER-ENJOYED that 5 minutes last scene in "Rogue-One" (personally I had... multiple orgasms!!!!) with that AMAZING DARTH VADER scene...
...and we thought in this film will see EVERYTHING from the Force...
...but NOOOOO, we saw almost nothing! WHY?
7. Focusing on extra-actors / characters meaningless
Han Solo originally was a nobody, a smuggler. But, Lucas developed his character to a MAJOR one. In "Force Awakens" & now, Fin hasn't developed at all (he's simply a deserter) or Poe (he's just a good pilot) or that useless new Rose (she's simply an nobody engineer)...
...And WHY, the film is focusing SO MUCH on these nobodies - since they are NOT developing their characters to something more interesting???
...That Del Toro's character. Totally useless, a nobody, that will forget after a month.
8. Useless/meaningless scenes - like the Casino
Okay, they wanted to make a "political statement" about the few super rich people and the depressing of the poor (the kids)... but why we needed to spend SO MUCH TIME on that meaningless scene? Or other scenes, like the meaningless "travel plan" scenes of the island?
That shows LACK OF SCENARIO!!!! They simply DIDN'T HAD figured what to do and how to fill the film.
...I could write for ever, but doesn't matter.
That film was a "STAR-WARS BASED" film, but not a StarWars film.
It looked to me like those TV Series Episodes from different directors, when JJ made the previous film-story and the new now made HIS OWN "Episode" almost NOT FOLLOWING what JJ introduced in "Force Awakens"!
Generally... the MOST POOR Direction and TOP-POOR writing, this film has.
That's the WORST of all for this film - NO DIRECTION, NO SCRIPT!