This movie is truly shocking in its incompetence. In addition to being quite possibly the most cowardly and gutless display of storytelling I’ve seen, it’s incoherence came off as unprofessional. The Emperor, long dead, is reintroduced in the opening crawl and things go quickly downhill from there. The first act is more dizzying video game than film and the editing is so fast one could be forgiven for succumbing to motion sickness.
In JJ’s effort to make this feel big…