Let down in so many ways

Rating: 1/10 (18 March 2018)

Let down" is the best way to define this movie. There was such great, and dare I see even EASY, potential for this movie to be amazing. The plot line just deviated into a bizarre pocket of topics no one cares about. The topics we did care about (Luke Skywalker's development, the Skywalker lineage in general, Snoke's back story) we're severely underdeveloped and disrespectfully cheapened (or just killed off, literally) without letting viewers experience a payoff for all the sleep they've lost over these characters hoping for something more. The scene when the team was searching for the "key maker" (a character played up as this evasive, mysterious, deeply-skilled character who is needed to help the rebellion, was played up in such a way that the audience was actually excited to meet him. I know I was. Then they deviated at the last second and grabbed some random dude who could do the same thing, disrespecting all the hype we had and killing the payoff completely. I still haven't a clue how any filmmaker could do something so stupid. That scene was almost good, then they decided to "fix it." That scene alone, I feel, summarized the whole movie: a long string of letdowns. I usually look forward to watching SW movies. I hardly even want to watch this again even if it comes out on Netflix. Maybe Netflix...