A genuine insult to fans across the galaxy

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2017)

If you are a fan of Star Wars, and all the lore and themes that come with it; if you have grown up with the original, or even the prequel trilogies then you will be left gutted and bitterly disappointed by this miserable farce.
The movie chooses to go off track, violating every single one of the plot lines set out by the Force Awakens to the point of trolling, and rips out all of the mystery and stuff that makes Star Wars so Star Wars. Instead of filling this now gaping void with an original, rich new plot line as it should have done with this approach, you are left with a sea of painfully underdeveloped characters, weak Marvel-style humor throughout and a desperately pathetic plot-line clawing to break its excessively long run-time.
The characters of Rey and Kylo Ren had their potential butchered without mercy. Instead of training to become a Jedi Knight, Rey is subject to watching Luke milk a spacecow and comically trotting around an island trying to hide from her. Instead of ascending to a deadly Sith Lord, or even rejoining the light side - Kylo Ren remains an emotionally unstable teenager with 0 development and has a temper tantrum every 2 minutes. The trade federation is honestly more intimidating than Kylo Ren.
General Hux, once a terrifying, power driven rich character with an arch of potential is now a comic relief punchbag , done with horrible execution.
Snoke is also killed off with no attempt at a backstory, despite the fact his absurd knowledge of the force and raw power clearly demands there is one.
The Knights of Ren are ignored - (to be honest nothing important is explained in the movie at all).
Finally, there is no lightsaber duel. No lightsaber duel. In a Star Wars movie. Unforgivable. Even the Phantom Menace had a lightsaber duel.
Disney have chosen to please shareholders rather than fans and will now viciously milk this saga for money as hard as Luke Skywalker was made to milk that spacecow.
Even if you know nothing about Star Wars at all this is still a dreadful movie due to the painfully weak directing, abhorrent 'screen play' and borderline unacceptable script writing.