If your new to Star Wars you'll enjoy it, if your a fan you'll hate it.

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2019)

First off let me say I've been a Star Wars fan for YEARS, I've seen the prequels, the original trilogy, and I've watched the tv series (clone wars, rebels, etc.) when I first heard about this movie I was really exited, especially hearing that Han, Luke, Leigh, and other original trilogy cast we're returning to their roles for the first time in over 30 years. Kyle ren looked like a really cool villain, with the crossed light saber, and rey seemed interesting, all in all the trailers looked great and I was exited. Then the movie came out and I saw it and we'll...mixed emotions. The bad: the story feels more of a reboot of Star Wars, with no real new story. The empire was defeated years ago, but just brought back again for the sake of the plot/ no new ideas. Stormtroopers, oh, and let's just add a bigger Death Star. Obviously very poor writing is shown in this movie. It feels like a joke, a parody of Star Wars. Still that's not to say I enjoyed this movie to some extent, the cinematography in some scenes is excellent, the space battles and action are every well done, the VFX was great, and of course the score by John Williams is brilliant as always. That being said the story, the plot, the characters, and the overall direction of this movie was a joke to me. I was hoping to see the story go in new directions but it didn't. Luke isn't even in the movie, Rey and Finn are these young kids who know nothing about the force, yet can go toe to toe with Kylo ren in lightsaber combat, can pilot a ship with ease, it's just an obvious mess. If you've never seen Star Wars and this is the first one you watch, you may enjoy it. If not, you'll hate it. For me I had mixed feelings but overall it was a mess.