Overall I thought the movie was good. I was very pessimistic that the story could be brought back onto the rails after the disaster of TLJ, but JJ pulled it off. He saved Star Wars.
I'm disappointed in how the overall trilogy turned out though, and much of this is because of TLJ. I think TFA needed to be a safe movie that righted the SW universe, and it set up TLJ to be epic. Rian Johnson decided to go in another direction and the trilogy was unable to recover. I felt like JJ had no choice but to make another "safe" movie to at least make the story arcs make sense and he did a good job of that.
No real fatal errors in the movie, although I had a mild quibble with popping in and out of lightspeed. Kinda annoyed at the new insane power of Rey & Palpatine, but I guess they explain it by saying he has every Sith in him, and she has a 1,000 generations of Jedi in her. The kiss I had a major problem with since it made no sense.
There were parts that I loved, (Chewie getting a medal, the small alien hacking C3PO) but many parts suffered because of the trash of TLJ. Rey & Kylo's character development the primary problems. JJ redeemed Rey's character as much as he could.
I don't think I'll ever get over how they handled Luke. He should have died heroically fighting the biggest baddie ever in EP 9, allowing Rey to finish the job and take up the mantle as infallible hero.
Anyway, just a few of my thoughts. I look forward to the spinoffs and some true creativity in the SW universe.
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