It's not perfect but it has heart and truth that makes it Moving and Epic.

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2020)

Spoilers. I was genuinely moved by this film. By the sacrifices that characters have to make - in this film and in the other films. By the way good things can go bad. How some of us can do things that are unforgivable and when we see our mistakes we know nothing we do can make up for it but it takes us higher. By the thought that we can come together, forget our petty individual concerns and make a change. And that family does not have to be by blood - it is by love. I wanted the opening shots to flow more majestically like A New Hope. I wanted the colours to be different. I didn't like seeing thousands of copy and paste CGI Star Destroyers - less is more. I didn't like yet another desert planet and yet another docking bay/prision rescue sequence. But I was so happy with the deeper story - Palpatine being re-animated like a Frankenstein makes sense - the Saga is His story too - as the Ultimate Evil it takes Luke, Leia, Rey, Kylo, Yoda, Ben, Obi Wan - all of them to tear him out by the roots like a weed. Everything that came before led to this. It was so sad that Leia knew she had to turn Ben but that he would die and so would she. That Rey sacrificed herself for the greater good. And Ben did too. That Rey would always have the taint of the repulsive Emperor - no wonder she wanted to change her name. That her parents were murdered. I felt the victory was hard won. And the writers, cast and director sold this to me - it hits you emotionally. Maybe I'm sensitive, maybe I'm not cynical - but that's what I loved about this film. It gave me hope and transcended individual ego and was about truth and love.