What would Abrams have done?

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2017)

To me, this movie felt like a selfish, self-serving power play by Rian Johnson. Whats worse, this movie felt to me like Rian Johnson's way of creating opportunities for himself to make spin-offs in the Skywalker-less trilogy he was promised by Disney.
**For the record, I have never written a review on here, nor do I even read them because I thought they were only for pessimists and over critical movie goers. But I specifically came to these reviews to see if I was the only one who felt this way about this movie and wanted to do its star count justice. There are some good reviews here that go in to detail all the things wrong with this movie. So I'm not going to get into them, just an overview of the movie as a whole. Ill also say that its not horrible, it is entertaining, but it is not worthy of a star wars film. Spin off? Maybe. Not an episode.
All the questions that had fans aching to see episode 8 were answered half-heartedly and in a finite way, as if Rian did not approve of the direction Abrams was going, and instead wanted to make his own new Stars Wars movie that was separate from the one before it. This movie felt as though it should have been a first or last movie, or even a stand-alone, rather than a second installment. Rian Johnson took no consideration to the foundation of this movie or saga that it was built upon in both episode 7 and the 6 before it, nor did he take any consideration to where the saga could go from where episode 8 would leave off. He ended important plot lines, created ones that were bland/cliche/obvoius/pointless, altogether making him across as a juvenile direction trying to make it big. He created the longest Star Wars to date dedicated to the classic "how do we get away from the bad guys" in every way, at least 3 ways in fact (ship, animals, smaller ships, on foot).
Say what you want about episode 7, but Abrams created story lines and plots that were interesting, thought providing, and left even the most die hard fans speculated about what would come next. Not only that, he left episode 8 open to so many opportunities and creative avenues that a director and writers could have taken it. Instead, with Rian at bat the plot and characters we had invested out interest in FOR TWO YEARS has been almost thrown out completely, leaving all our burning questions answered and no new questions to hang on to. The only thing I kept thinking while watching this movie was that he was more interested in starting a new saga rather than giving his full effort to the one that had already been formulated. I would have loved to see where Adams was hoping this movie would go. I'll see the final installment, because i love movies and I hope Abrams can pick up where he left off and save these movies from the boring and forgettable path that it is on now. All hope lie within what he does with the last one