Boring mainly

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2017)

My main feelings when leaving the cinema were of feeling underwhelmed and bored.
Very little happens in this film. It's essentially a long car chase in space. There's a pointless side mission to a casino planet where some racing animals get freed (but it's fine to leave the human slaves as slaves) and then there's a Hoth-like final battle with bigger AT-ATs (bigger's always better as we learnt from Starkiller Base). And that's pretty much it. Oh and some kid with a broom.
Snoke dies, Luke dies, Phasma is probably dead but they'll probably bring her back anyway, loads of Resistance members die.
I have no idea where they're going to take the story in Ep IX. The force-sensitive kid with the broom will presumably play a part, but it'll just be Rey vs Kylo as far as I can tell. I can't see how they can make an interesting story out of that.
Everything non-story-related was good, but the story is garbage. Is this the best they could come up with? The mind boggles.