Seen it twice now....

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2019)

Read a lot of reviews. Even a NY Times article that blames all the hate on Russian OP's and Racists.
Is it a disaster? No. Is it really good? No. Things are rushed and chaotic. The emperor is just back. He's spent his time building a frigg'n huge armada. He also has a legion of Sith. It would have helped if there were even small clues this was happening In the earlier movies.. But no, it just is. He's been conveniently hidden away on one of those "uncharted, not on any maps" places that keep popping up in these movies.
There's a lot of stolen ideas from other series. Harry Potter, Supernatural, Antman and Wasp, even Infinity War, Charmed, as well as others.
We're introduced to the idea of a memory ghost. As opposed to a force ghost?
Poe is shown to be a lot more like Han Solo. (Poe movie on the horizon?)
Chewy get's killed but then they thought better and had him live? (Second unseen transport?) Rey instantly senses Chewy is alive later on, but couldn't sense he wasn't killed earlier?
There's good fight scenes and bad fight scenes. I remember back to The Force Awakens where Ren held a blast in air. Here they're are just using A lot of telekinesis to stop things, pull things, push things, lift things spin things. So Jedi and Sith have suddenly become Marvel Girl/Phoenix?
We find out that Leah was fully trained, but abandoned it. She's more of a Jedi precog we learn. Maz Kanata will just remain a magical alien. We've found out nothing about her except she's always been around. Knows everybody.
There's the obligatory Star Wars long distance run up attack this time by Ren. Where he's coming, coming, coming...." They can't land nearby, always have to start from miles away kind of thing.
There are new powers, force users able to exchange things from long distances through a connection. There's now Force users Supernatural Angel healing. Finn has "feelings".
There's the obligatory rebels getting their asses handed to them, all hope is lost, but apparently rebel ships don't fall very fast? and despite lot of them getting shot, blown to smithereens, they must have had more ORIGINAL attacking ships then we saw. It would seem thousands of enemy ships would have wiped them out by the time reinforcements arrive? Since the Rebels only had like dozens?
Emperor Palpatine is so powerful now it's ridiculous. Yet I never once thought he wouldn't get defeated. So yes there's a lot of BS.
If you go in expecting a masterpiece, you will be thoroughly disappointed.
BUT if you go in with the attitude they're trying to correct a lot of misconceived notions in the last 5 movies and just watch, you should be entertained.
I do have to laugh at episodes 1-3. Where they claimed a Jedi must be trained very young. Everybody in Episodes 4-9 was trained in early adulthood and they are by far more powerful. Darth Vader wouldn't stand a chance against any of these overpowered Sith or Jedi.