Star Wars: The Death of the Magic

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2017)

That's honestly what I thought the movie should have been called and after over 3 decades this movie doesn't give us the Luke Skywalker we were waiting for. Instead the trend of the new movies is to unceremoniously kill off beloved characters (Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Admiral Ackbar, and Leia in the next installment) with little fanfare and for no reason other than to push the new characters which we really don't have any connection to. Like everyone else, I have about the same complaints about Snoke being discarded 1.5 movies into the trilogy with no explanation to who he is or where he came from and the ridiculous trend of current Hollywood films trying to be inclusive just for the sake of it without actually paying attention to creating characters that you care about and find interesting.
I found myself laughing at certain parts of the film and not because of the intended humor. The deactivation of the ship's hyperspace tracking and casino planet storylines are throwaway subplots that wouldn't be missed if they were placed on the cutting room floor. They literally served no purpose to the overall plot except for giving a few of the characters something to do as to appear as if they are helping the other characters. The resistance makes a few huge mistakes that you wouldn't expect smart characters to do and the villains are either entirely stupid (Hux) or perform actions that make no sense (Kylo and Del Toro's "Codebreaker").
As bad as the prequels were I'd surmise that George Lucas could have done a far better job with the right people keeping him in check like the original trilogy had. Sorry Disney, you can pay off all the critics you like but the fans mark this down as a dud. You need to regroup and figure out some way to salvage this abortion in the last movie.