Disregard all the negativity! An 11 out of 10

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2019)

No spoilers.
I'm a hardcore fan and has been since 1977, and this was just a wonderful, wonderful experience. JJ completely and forcefully saved and wrapped up the most impactful movie experience of my life. I honestly can't understand where all the negativity comes from.
Perhaps this movie resonated differently with people who grew up with the original trilogy than those that came in at a later point and were expecting more focus on things happening in the prequels? I've read reviews that it was three movies in one, endless action scenes and zero character development, and nothing could be further from the truth. The film is extremely focused on the story line; no side tracks and gone are the silly excursions of casinos, code breakers and horse races that doesn't lead anywhere. No weird everybody has the force philosophy with kids and brooms, or dead pan silliness where Poe speaks to the First Order pretending to be put on hold. It is in a sense intense in that a lot is wrapped up, but so it should be as one has to remember it is the final chapter. This was a true Star Wars story for those to whom Star Wars matter, and the final scene in particular was wonderful and dare I say cathartic. Ignore the negative reviewers, as in the words of the late Michael Jackson, they don't care about us.