General guy at the beginning: Completely incompetent and moronic. The opening scene is obviously played for comic value, but it paints the First Order's leadership as so incredibly dumb and brain-dead that it can only mean the Resistance is even dumber and more incompetent since they're losing to these idiots.
Poe: Quite honestly, the best character in the movie, yet due to poor writing, he is made into a mockery. The attack on the First Order dreadnought is a resounding victory, with some thousand to one kill ratio, and only marginal losses, yet he is criticized for this tactical brilliance and unfairly punished. Later on, when the commanding officer proves herself to be an incompetent, he takes the initiative to come up with a backup plan, which, in any other Star Wars movie, would have succeeded, but since he is a white male, they decide to make it fail instead, leading to the death of 99% of the Resistance personnel... a mistake that should get him a court martial and execution, but is instead ignored because the Resistance doesn't give a crap about proper discipline.
Pink haired admiral lady: A complete incompetent buffoon. Regardless of how good her strategy is, to not share it with your junior officers, and the way she caused the low morale of the Resistance forces to mutiny against her, paints her to be the worst commander possible. With so many commanders like her in the Resistance, it's no wonder the incompetent First Order is still able to succeed. A good commander never, ever has to worry about mutiny. I'm glad she dies, but the fact that they violate the canon pseudoscience space combat (after all, if you could simply ram a vessel at light speed, wouldn't they have done so to both Death Stars in the main series?) is another issue in itself.
Rey: A perfect character, with no flaws, but no personality. I don't care that she's female, I care that she can use high level Jedi powers with zero training, fix up the Milennium Falcon better than Han Solo and Chewie who have been doing so for decades, effortlessly win the admiration of everyone around her, and defeat highly trained and skilled lightsaber duelists relying on her own self-training only. Not to mention, her fight choreography is so awful that the SFX guys literally had to make one of the laser knives vanish mid swing to avoid stabbing her in the back.
Finn: Nothing particularly remarkable, simply a bland character. The Empire in the original trilogy were quite obviously space nazis, which is why they were all white males. Perhaps the First Order is less Nazi than the Empire, but it still seems like he's filling a check mark for ethnic diversity. His attempt at a heroic sacrifice is admirable, but of course his girlfriend had to come and ruin it for him.
Finn's girlfriend: Ugh. Just ugh. A bland, boring character, to fill the check mark for ethnic diversity, whose only noteworthy achievement should have gotten Finn AND the Resistance killed. Seriously, ramming a vehicle at that speed should kill them both, and how the heck did she get ahead of him in order to make the 90 degree turn in order to ram him to begin with?
Super Leia: Her little Superman stunt is dumb, as it has already been established in canon that while Jedi can jump really high and run really fast, they can't actually fly... when they fall off of something, they keep falling until they hit the ground with a splat. Aside from that, she is much like an older version of Rey... good at everything, everyone loves her, and along with Chewie, she is the only character from the original trilogy to be alive at the end of the movie, in order to fill the check mark for strong female character. Too bad they'll have to kill her off camera before the next movie, which I have no intention of watching.
That alien sith lord guy: Meh. He shows himself to be more powerful at throwing things around with the Force than Rey is, but that's not really saying much, since she doesn't have any training at all whatsoever. He's absolutely awful when it comes to clairvoyance, as exemplified by the way his apprentice kills him so easily.
Kylo: Meh. The hint of romance between him and Rey is just stupid... as is they way they try to make the audience sympathize with him. He's an emo-goth Vader wannabe, and while his mind reading is a cool ability, the fact that he lost a fight to a girl with zero force and lightsaber training, and the fact that the same girl, with zero training, can read his mind better than he can read hers, paints him to be a laughable villain.
The gambler: Seems like his entire reason for existing is to point out the evils of Capitalism. I'd rather pass on the political spiel, thanks. Aside from that, there's no way he could have known about the incompetent admiral's plan to evacuate, since none of the good guys who hired him even knew. He must have Force clairvoyance of much higher level than the sith lord guy to know.
The Character Assassination of Luke Skywalker: Saved the best for last. Luke... oh Luke... these terrible writers turned you from the most optimistic character in the entire Star Wars universe into... well, the exact opposite. How can this character, who risked everything to save his father that had already gone as dark as could be, turn around and attempt to murder his own nephew for even considering such thoughts? How can Rian Johnson and Kathy Kennedy murder my childhood hero, both in character and literally, for no other apparent reason than his gender and skin color? This character assassination alone is enough to make this the worst Star Wars movie ever... even worse than the Ewok movie that everyone pretends never happened... but then you look at how bad all the other characters are, as well, and it's no wonder so many of the long-term Star Wars fans hated this movie and refused to watch Solo.
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