Fun movie, I loved it. Minor spoiler!

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2019)

The opening crawl says there's a message from Palpatine, and that's as spoilery as I'm going to get. The action is fast and exciting, the banter between Finn, Poe, Chewie, and Rey is fun, the relationship between Ray and Kylo is fantastic, there is blaster fights, ship battles, lightsaber duels, twists and turns, cameos, new characters, some fan service, some poignant scenes with Leia, and an epic ending. As a late forty something man who saw the first movie when I was six years old, I had a grand time, I cheered, gasped, and cried, It was almost everything I hoped it would be. (P.S. I hated The Last Jedi, and this almost undoes the damage that one did, at least for me.)