Reviews

There is only few things which work in this movie - lead actress is on top of her role, and scenes where she gets Luke's saber and last scene when she hands it over to him. And, I can say intro scene was decent.

Everything else has absolutely no sense with rest of the series. Here are the most moronic moments:

1) "First order", as military formation gathered from survivors of Empire, is at least 5 times more powerful than Empire ever was, only 20 years after total collapse of Empire. That has no sense.

2) After Empire was defeated in Ep. 6, THE REPUBLIC WAS RESTORED, so there is no reason for any rebellion movement to exist. You would only have Republic army, and this setting, which has both Republic and Rebellion, just has no sense (like almost everything else).

3) Kylo Ren was defeated by storm trooper and some girl which never had training with force. This was the most stupid thing I have ever seen. And no, regular storm trooper cant parry to Jedi or Sith, even if he knows melee weapon techniques, because he cant defend himself from force. If someone with brains was screenwriter, he would know that Kylo Ren would not wait for someone to attack him, but would throw him away, or choke him or her (just like he did actually, to Rey, only moment before he started absolutely illogical battle with those two and obviously forgot that he can still use it).

4) Everything about the map which shows Luke's whereabouts has no sense. We never got explanation who made the map and why, how come that about 90% of the map was all along at R2-D2 and how come he was shut down and inexplicably restarted for no reason? It just has ABSOLUTELY no sense.

5) Guy who plays Kylo Ren looks totally weak. I mean, in moment when he removed his mask, I was not certain should I cry or laugh. He looks like stoned freshman college student who did not took a shower for at least two weeks, and he wants to be a Sith??? Aaaaaah!

6) Why he wares mask anyway? He was not seriously injured like Vader was. Stupid, stupid writing.

7) Harrison Ford. My favorite actor, which did not had bad movie until this one, looks like he was totally out of interest to act here. He is just absolutely unconvincing as Han Solo, just as this whole movie is unconvincing as Star Wars. That was not Han Solo I saw in movie, it was Harrison Ford who was pretty bored and kept waiting everything to be finished.

8) Finn is totally bad written character. It turns out he quit the First Order for no right reason, because he saw the same things like other stormtroopers which were with him. Nothing gave us better explanation why he left (Did slaughter of civilians gave him some flashback from his youth maybe? No one knows, because screenwriters of this trash do not think about it, I guess), and for the rest of the movie he has absolutely no regrets and fears, ALTHOUGH his character MUST HAVE been very scared after running away from the only community and life he (almost) ever knew. But, there are no such things, he stays "bad boy", who doesn't care for such things. One more totally unconvincing character.

Anyway, I am sorry I blamed Lucas for Ep.1-3. It turned out they were great, comparing to this thing, whatever this thing is.

So, I am giving only one star, because I cant give less, and because of Daisy Ridley and couple of scenes. Everything else - just has NO sense, and all of these flaws I mentioned are intolerable. Every single one of them would be enough for this movie to suck, and, as you can see, there is at least 8 of them. The whole story looks written too quickly and actors look like they are just looking forward just to finish the job as soon as possible, with absolutely no effort.

(And I hadn't mentioned other stupidities, like First order was practically defeated on same way Empire was in Ep. 4 (will they ever protect their super weapons better), and that it took only 3 persons to enter their base and make sabotage damage. If you think it is that easy, try to enter some nuclear facility or missile silo with couple of friends, and see what will happen.)