A good surprise - no spoilers

Rating: 8/10 (31 January 2018)

To put this into context: before I saw this movie, I was against the idea of this movie (milking the franchise), I didn't like the main actress because I didn't really see her in the role of a badass violent rebel spy and we didn't see to know any of the characters in the trailers (except Mon Mothma).
Well, that movie shut me up for 2 hours.
It's a bit messy in the beginning, many new characters, planets, and you change scene every 3min.
But the second half of the movie is glorious.
Soundtracks are epic, especially the music for the last 10 minutes. No spoiler but you know which soundtrack I mean, and if not, it's called "your father would be proud".
Visually it's wow, nothing to envy to what would call "a real star wars". The last battle (no spoiler I swear) has really really cool and good shots.
Casting is good, Felicity Jones was a good surprise and so was Diego Luna. The droid and whoever is "inside" is pretty good too. He drops like 1 or 2 jokes but overall, there's no humor.
Which leads me to my last point: it's not funny. People are dying, the rebels are seen as terrorists, there is no Anakin line "This is where the fun begins", it's not funny Anakin, we're at war god damn it! People aren't smiling, they're sad, dirty, there's few hope. it's pretty dark and I love it.
Just a small points about the last scene (go watch it) which I can't spoil... wow. We all wanted to see this since we were kids. It's a bit of fan service but who cares, it was glorious.
Ignore the last jedi and go watch this.