The main character is unlikable and almost irrelevant. Without about 15 other people she would have achieved nothing. She has no powers, no character, nothing to make her stand out as the hero. I did not expect a new Luke here, but she has nothing at all.
The movie is way to long and packed full with CGI, battle action and all sorts of unnecessary or comedy relief dialogue. The movie had undertones of conflicts of our current time - often you can imagine watching a movie taking place in Afghanistan or some Arab states. Bad idea to bring in these aspects of conflicts that can not be reduced to "we good -you evil".
The story is plain and full of logical problems. It's all "just because" - the core of it is a problem from the original movies: why build a super-weapon that has a total failure trigger built in that is quite easily accessible? They made an over 2h movie to just explain that - and failed, as the explanation is as weak as none at all.
In their wake of destruction producers ignored just so many things about the Star Wars universe that you can't count them.
The magic is long gone.
The movie is way to long and packed full with CGI, battle action and all sorts of unnecessary or comedy relief dialogue. The movie had undertones of conflicts of our current time - often you can imagine watching a movie taking place in Afghanistan or some Arab states. Bad idea to bring in these aspects of conflicts that can not be reduced to "we good -you evil".
The story is plain and full of logical problems. It's all "just because" - the core of it is a problem from the original movies: why build a super-weapon that has a total failure trigger built in that is quite easily accessible? They made an over 2h movie to just explain that - and failed, as the explanation is as weak as none at all.
In their wake of destruction producers ignored just so many things about the Star Wars universe that you can't count them.
The magic is long gone.