Better than expected

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2019)

47 year old Star Wars fan here and I'm glad to say this was better than I expected. The Last Jedi was a a mess and JJ and the other writers managed to deal with that by pretty much disregarding most of it. Turns out Snoke was just a genetically grown lab rat, Rose & Finn don't like each other that much and Luke agreed he was being a dick. Anyway this film starts out well and had me interested from the start regarding Rey's relationship with Kylo and how Palpatine pulls them all together for a finale that didn't disappoint. C3PO turns evil for a bit, chewbacca dies, Lando made me laugh & Wedge Antilles turns up (I guess they waved a nice cheque in his face this time around). George Lucas said "Star Wars was for 12 year olds" and if I was 12 again I'd go out and buy the toys, lunch box and tee shirt again for sure. But like I said, I'm 47 so I'll just go back to work tomorrow and wait for the next big thing.