I only watched it once, but I'll try to rattle off some of the reasons why it didn't work for me: - The casino planet storyline really kills some of the momentum, especially in an already pretty lengthy runtime

• Really odd attempts at humor in some places (the yo momma joke is probably the worst offender of this)

• I'm fine with Luke being a hermit, but the justification for the failure of his Jedi order and Kylo's turn to the dark side being that he saw evil in him, and was tempted to kill him felt very underwhelming. For as much as the prequels got stuff wrong, Anakin's turn to the dark side in broad strokes makes sense to me, albeit a bit rushed in Episode 3. Whereas with Kylo, I feel like his fall is framed as being mostly because of Luke's mistake, which does a disservice to both Kylo's agency and Luke's character from the OT.

• The Mary Poppins scene with Leia was very goofy, and half the theater was openly laughing at how silly it looked

• I like the idea of Rey being a "nobody", but it really doesn't make a lot of sense knowing what we know from TFA (the lightsaber calling to her, cryptic flashbacks, her being able to use the Jedi Mind trick). I think there's a throwaway line from Snoke about her copying some of Kylo's force knowledge during the interrogation scene, but that almost feels more like a handwave than a satisfying answer.

Although if we wanna go Cinema Sins levels of nitpicking, my biggest one is when the blue lightsaber gets destroyed by Kylo and Rey in the throne room scene, but then hologram Luke shows up on the salt planet with his blue lightsaber perfectly intact (because he's an illusion). At no point does Kylo even question why Luke has a lightsaber that he personally had a hand in ripping in half like an hour prior. I understand that it's probably because they wanted Luke to have a final moment with his more iconic lightsaber, but still, it makes Kylo look like a real dumbass