I agree that the ending of TFA is weak. The film actually only ends with Finding Luke. We have no idea if he is going to train Rey, rejoin Leia, fight Kylo Ren, fight Snoke, or help in any way. The idea that Rey has gone to him for training is not implied in the film. Leia sends her there to bring him back so that is the only implied ending (which agrees with the opening crawl), but we aren’t certain if Rey will be able to bring him back or not. The movie ends with finding Luke. The Maltese Falcon didn’t end with finding the falcon, there was more to the story. There was more to the story in TFA, but the story cuts off. Typical of Abrams crappy endings.
But even so, that is not my biggest gripe with the film. Some find it a rehash or reboot of Ep 4. I don’t. I seem a few similar plot points (but then, ROTJ is a rehash of the the last half of Ep 4 in much closer ways), but the overall story is unique. My problem is with the story jumps that fail logic. So, the Falcon takes off from Jakku and escapes into space. Where are the other Tie Fighters. Why doesn’t the Star Destroyer pursue? Why doesn’t the Falcon go into hyperspace. How did Han just happen to be near Jakku to detect the Falcon. Basically from when the Falcon leaves Jakku until Han and Chewy board, the movie makes no sense. The Falcon would still be close enough to Jakku for Kylo Ren to sense his father like he does later. And then you have Starkiller base. That weapon makes no sense. If Takodana is in the Hosnian system, then they would be able to see the weapon destroy the other planets, but the story implies it is a different system and fails to name it or why destroying it will destroy the entire New Republic Navy. We have a Galactic scale government that can be wiped out with the destruction of a single system? And the Navy has no other bases and ships? Seriously. You call that story telling? It is one of the stupidest segments in all of Star Wars. And then you have a small planet suck up an entire star? Where did it put it? Physics doesn’t work that way. Not unless you have something dimensionally transcendental like the TARDIS. Add to that the letdown ending, the over saturated lighting, the lack of a sense of scale (the galaxy is a big place, but Abrams made it seem small), the wrong lightsaber sound effects, trying to cram too much into the story, and all its other problems, I just can’t give TFA a good rating compared to the other 6 films. I didn’t suck as bad as Abrams 2 Star Trek films, that is for sure, but while I enjoyed the characters and can’t wait to see more of them, the film left me dissatisfied in a way few movies do. None of the PT left me with this feeling and I have never seen holes of this magnitude in any of the other films.
That is why to me TFA ranks the lowest. It is 7 of 7.