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In theory it will be dead...in actuality it will still be on the theaters biggest screen and the theater will be forced to give Disney an unprecedented 65% of box office revenues for a whole month...sure the auditorium will be empty and 65% of nothing is nothing...but the corpse of this thing will be laying around for another three weeks!

You must have been watching another film. First, Rey's parentage isn't revealed because that's going to be carried over into the last film. You surely don't believe what Ren said to her do you? Second, it makes perfect sense that a conflicted Ren would want to destroy both the light and dark side of the Force in order to rule himself. As Supreme Leader he is better than Emperor Palatine. What were you expecting, a shadowry omnipotent Sith Lord at the helm a la Sauron of LOTR fame?? A surly cynical Skywalker makes perfect sense because of his failure with Ben Solo. In the canon of fantasy literature it makes sense that the Force is dispensed with because of the never ending battle between good and evil. If both the Light and Dark side are destroyed the eternal battle for mastery can end restoring a perfect equilibrium to the universe. I see that this is the way the trilogy is going. After all, isn't the Force a pseudo religion??? I agree that the silliest moment in the film is the survival of Leia. Ren should have fired the shot that should have killed her rather than surviving the film. And finally, it makes sense that Skywalker died after his exertions projecting his astral self so far away. He'll come back a la Obi Wan and Yoda in the next film to guide Rey in a critical moment. Both she and Ren are clearly related. That will come out in the final film. If anything, the ending hinted at four films rather than three - the Resistance is virtually destroyed. That can't be rebuilt in one film. The allies that the Resistance hinted at will have to come to the fore in a big way. In fact, they will form the core of the new resistance. You quote ONE critic. If you look on Metacritic 45 professional reviewers have given it an average rating of 85%. C'mon my friend, you are being disingenuous in quoting just one source to back up your point. The Last Jedi is a better film than Force Awakens. $573 and rising. It'll make $800-900 million - success!