Violent and ugly

Rating: 1/10 (6 January 2018)

What an appalling piece of cinema. As if you can make a good film with nothing but special effects and very very loud bangs every few seconds. What does it say about our culture that Disney can not only think they can get away with such brain dead fare but, judging by the viewer numbers, are right. One of the worst films ever made, makes Plan 9 from Outer Space seem like a masterpiece in comparison. The only fairly pleasant scenes in this waste of 2.5 hours are those on Luke's island. Lovely to look at and nice scenery there. But even there explosions and violence regularly occur, as if the audience will drift off with without regular shocks to their nervous systems. Typical of this disgrace's lack of subtlety is Lord Snoke (Snake?)What an ugly name, to go with his reptilian appearance, just in case we don't get the message that he is a bad guy. Childish, comic-book stuff.