A Short Honest Review

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2019)

The film is entertaining in terms of action, visual effects, humour, and scenery etc. Where it becomes confusing is due to it's target market; it's too dark for really young children - I couldn't watch it with my 6 year old like the old Star Wars movies. Yet the story line is too predictable, simplistic, rushed, very lazy, and full of plot holes for adults to appreciate. It feels like a young teenager wrote it; I took my 10 year old son to watch it and he thought it was the best Star Wars yet.
What Disney have effectively done is alienated the original Star Wars fans (not all, many think it's fantastic) but also made a Disney film that the whole family can't watch. In favour of picking up the Fortnite generation, fitting in marketing and merchandising opportunities.
I personally thought it was the better of the latest trilogy and I certainly wasn't bored watching it, it has some really good moments, and some very nostalgic moments for fans to appreciate. Unfortunately a classic it is not and as a film on it's own I would say it's pretty forgettable.