Not perfect, But WAY better than The Last Jedi

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2019)

I don't understand why everyone hates this movie. I heard about the bad reviews going in. I've loved Star Wars my entire life, one of the first movies I remember seeing in theatres was the Empire Strikes Back. If that movie is rated as an 8.7 on IMDb, and The Last Jedi is a 7.1, then this one is at least a 7.5 - 8.0 . It's not perfect and yeah there is a bit of Disney's touch. But it's way better than the Last Jedi. Like no boring Casino heist plot involved with this one.
I think they way JJ Abrams brought the series together considering the pieces he had to pick up after the Last Jedi is admirable. I don't think they've ever done the Dark Side better than this. Maybe the struggle with Luke and Darth Vader had a better story. But Rey and Kylo-Ren made this series for me. I personally thought The Last Jedi was bad, but I still loved everything that they did with Rey and Kylo-Ren's character in it. It was just the other 50% with the casino heist, and mopey Luke that I hated. If you go into this movie wanting to watch the end of their story line then I don't think you will be disappointed. Some of the space battles were a bit take it or leave it for me but that's OK. The one thing I would change about this movie is just toning back the humour a bit. Star Wars is meant to be intense, maybe a little bit of humour. The new saga has a bit too many jokes for my liking, and they aren't that funny to be honest. In the original, the banter between Chewy and Han or C3PO and R2D2 was what the humour should be like.