Just watch the movie.

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2019)

I classify movies into two main categories. Fun and filmy. Fun being movies that are predominantly box office and are looking to entertain. Filmy being the movies that are taking the movies as an art form. Star Wars falls into the former. It's not meant to be anything extravagant, it's just meant to be fun.
This is my greatest frustration with big properties with a big fan base. There is so much critique over a movie that holds so much fan value. Having looked at the original trilogy, they are seriously no better than these. There is just to much expectation put into movies that are no more than a fun time. You can comment on plot holes, technical flaws, those are valid. But to claim it's bad through the lens of a fan wearing beer goggles for Star Wars creates this heavenly picture for a movie that will never be achieved. I have never expected a filmy experience from Star Wars because that is not the intention.
As for the actual movie I had fun. It was not the best and also not the worse. I felt it was worth my money and did what it was suppose to do as a box office movie and entertain. Competent on a technical basis and good all around acting but with shaky writing and plot points that left me chuckling. But I'm not mad, why? Because I know what these movies are, and expect something more is to set yourself up for disappointment