Satisfying if not spectacular

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2019)

Just got back from the cinema after seeing ROS and as my first review on IMDB I'm leaving this, based mainly on the trilogy as a whole but it could be on this stand alone movie.
Let me take you back to the original trilogy......I was a young lad who would be invested in the story lines, connected to the characters and when they felt pain, so did I. When they felt joy, so did I. When the films finished I would look out of my window up into the night sky and genuinely believe beyond the stars there was a Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Yoda occupying our galaxy.......
I'm afraid those days are gone !
Not because I'm a 40 year old guy now, because, believe me, I still have that active imagination I once had but because, what with these last 3 films Abrams and Johnson have completely shattered my imagination.
The characters try and in large parts I feel sorry for them but the storylines and the way the film is directed is actual a shambles.
I won't go into spoilers but for me it has a satisfactory end I suppose and obviously the CGI is really good and overall it's reasonably enjoyable but as far as "a galaxy far far away" goes, that galaxy has vanished forever in my opinion