Same old story

Rating: 2/10 (1 February 2018)

This movie is nothing but a rehash of old Star Wars scenes. The rebels sneaking aboard the Death Star, oops, the Mega-class Star Destroyer. The confrontation with the Emperor, oops, Snokes. The chase of the Counselor Ship with Princess Leia aboard, oops, the Raddus, with General Leia aboard. And so on and so on. One thing sort of original was a plot device that is completely impossible. The Star Destroyer can't get to the Raddus because, beyond any sense of reality, it can just stay out of range, huh, what, how. But in the meantime, they, the kind rebels, are preventing any of the crew from leaving and so condemning them to a certain death, because why? Because it seems the rebels are now commanded by the same corporate stupidity that created this movie.
It is my belief that this is one of those efforts that was mostly created in the board room. It has all the earmarks. Lack of any original plot, repackaging the same old stuff, Throwing it together in a confusing mismash, and lots of noise so we become distracted and not notice that underneath it is really worse than the fan made efforts. Making us again ask, couldn't they hire at least one good writer?Quite simply, it is the desperate effort of non creative types trying to wring out a few more shillings by repeating everything again. The real pity is that these people have hold of whole universe to play in, but all they can do is try to redo the same story, badly.
I decided recently that I had to add on to this, because there was a brief review with the announcement that the movie is coming to Netflix that stated it is the best Star Wars Movie. My first thought was, who paid this guy off? This is a bad movie, it would be a bad movie even if it had nothing to do with star wars. The writing is terrible, the plot so bad as to be just confusing, the events occur in some nightmare time where things go on too long or occur too quickly and none of the characters make any sense. It is just a bad bad movie. I wish that Disney would stop trying to hide this from the public by paying off critics.