I found nothing redeeming about this movie other than the visual artists who worked on the film. Apparently the director also wrote the script, but the writing and decision making seems like a committee effort and the end result is just a hot mess.
What gives with all the cornball humor and ineffective timing? Sure, all the movies have had jokes at times, but this movie went out of its way to make everyone a bad comic. Sorry, but Star Wars is a about good/evil, a fight for survival, insurmountable odds, not giving up, etc. it's not about how can we inject as many lurching bad jokes as possible into every scene. I didn't go to watch TLJ thinking I was going to see a crap comedy set in space, give me break.
Can we have some science in our science fiction please!? Is that so hard? Bombs float in space, not fall. Put some cool mini propulsion systems on them, is that so hard? And what is with the lobbing of laser shots at the rebel ships, are you serious? When holes get punched in ships there is a thing called a vacuum...
This "chase" was excruciating to sit through. Oh wow, you can track a ship through hyperspace but you can't squeeze a bit more juice out of the engines, out maneuver, recruit another vessel, etc? Really? And what did the first order say, that the rebel ships were lighter?! You are in space! I am sorry, the Rebels have a fuel problem? They don't have fission? Still running on petrol? This whole sequence was stupid and lasted forever. The FO looked stupid and so did the rebels.
Oh, and Poe just takes out all the laser cannons to start the movie, sure. Remind me how in the world the FO has pushed the rebels to the brink if their fleet is so inept? Maybe it is because they can't bend the rules of gravity.
Rey accomplished nothing on the island. She went there essentially to talk to Ren. Luke finally gives her one lesson eventually. Then she decides to run off and confront everyone. Whatever, she is totally untrained and raw, but sure, she can best Ren, Luke and the Guard. Right. She's a character more like a Disney princess, not a Jedi warrior. And her dark side experience was boring, there was nothing menacing at all. Her saber swinging on top of the mountain reminded me of the kid in his garage. Like her swinging against air all day was going to hone her skills.
Snoke. WTH? Why even put him in the damn movies at all? He literally has no reason to be in the movies. Ren could have been showed rising to power and finding his own way to becoming a sith lord without a master. His knights (where are they?!) would have helped him rise up and take over the first order. That would have been vastly different and much more effective than this bait and switch bs. His death is just lazy writing, sorry. All the movie is basically lazy creativity. If that was the intent a different storyline was needed.
Geez, what else? Flying Leia. That was a perfect time to take her out. Most her lines were so mush mouthed in the film it was hard to watch. Laura Dern just shows up as next in command? Ok? Where have you been and why don't you have a suit like everyone else? Oh and your plan sucks.
Poe is a douche. He is developed to be nothing more. Why are they not developing the characters? And then you have all the older wiser women leaders going tsk tsk every time he tries to do something, but he is indeed acting stupid. Ugh, just so bad all around. Then at the end, he's like geez guys I think Luke is trying to buy us some time! Ya think?
Rose is damn annoying. Actually everything to do with her, Finn and their pitiful plot arc should have been removed from the movie to trim time. It is only there in my opinion to give Finn something to do in the movie. That and inform us idiot movie goers how animals are harmed, rich people are bad, poor people are forgotten, both warring sides are equally guilty, etc. etc. Excuse me for existing Disney, let me go off myself now, and as a side benefit I won't have to see the rest of this movie. And then Rose prevents Finn from blowing up the battering ram at the end. I hated that. Finn should have been like, Girl you are an idiot! Now everyone is going to die! She's a damn plumber, what's she even doing flying one of those pods?grrr, she prevented Finn from actually serving a purpose. You could have removed their whole arc and 0 impact on film outcome! So why was it there?
I have so much more to cover, but I'm tiring out. Let's end with Luke. I notice one apologist poster keeps saying he likes the broken hero. Yeah, that's fine. However, the feeling is one of a disrespected and crapped on broken hero by the creatives in this movie. I'm fine with the grumpiness, unwillingness to train, etc. However, Luke was the only hope Star Wars had in the originals. He found something still alive in Vader for crying out loud. He couldn't kill Ren. You are telling me as much of a hermit he may be, he will not be more involved in helping his own sister and her forces escape or battle Ren? You are just going to leave the greatest hero of Star Wars on an island the whole time, have him fake fight Ren, and then just force suicide himself before his time? Whatever. The way Luke's character was treated made absolutely no sense and was disrespectful. Hamill is on the record saying as much himself.
I can't comprehend what those that like the movie actually like? Do you just get off on being trolled by the director and Disney? You like the efforts to just do away with the old characters as much as possible while inviting in non developing new characters? Seeing the conservative place setting put in place by TFA, only to see TLJ serve you slop instead of steak? I really, really, don't get it. I am done with this Star Wars arc. Maybe the offshoots will hold some hope like Rogue One.
