Entertaining, but a missed opportunity

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

The best thing about this movie was Kylo/Rey connection, and their struggle to pick a side. I couldn't help but wonder while in the cinema: why the bloated, rushed plot? Couldn't they have made Kylo the main villain, started the movie by showing that he has only lost to Rey before because he was still torn between light/dark side and was holding back? Establish him as a real threat by making him defeat Rey and almost kill her in the beginning. Then the plot will be about the resistance trying to stop Kylo and kill him, while Rey, being trained by Luke and Anakin force ghosts, is torn between giving up on him and trying to save him, because she feels she owe Han and Leia. This could have given plenty of time for us to connect with Kylo and Rey, and plenty of time for them to form a sort of a bond. I see a wasted opportunity to make a character-driven movie that focused on the struggle of characters and their connections to each other. They chose to go down the route of a thousand spaceships firing at each other, was lame for me. Anyway, no, wasn't a bad movie, was an average one with some rare good moments.