I throughly enjoyed the movie despite a few plot holes and weaker story areas

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2017)

A visually exciting movie this expanded the horizon of the star Wars universe and I thought on the whole the movie was well written and directed
Spoilers in the next 2 paragraphs
However there some weak areas in he film,
Firstly I fundamentally disagree with the way the force is now so much more powerful than it used to be and in my opinion so much more powerful than it should be. Particularly the part where Leia used the force to get back onto the ship was for me simply silly. I feel that they missed a perfect opportunity to remove her from the franchise. I feel that Luke's force power at the end was also too strong and I therefore agree that the effort of that would have killed him, I very much hope that we will see him as a force projection in episode IX.
As for Snoke's death, I feel that it was good in one sense as it came as a big surprise which I liked, however I feel letting him die was also a mistake as I feel there was more potential in his character.
This film gives me mixed feelings about how episode IX will pan out, as I said I hope Luke will give his advice to Rey in the next installment, however I am also worried about episode IX as I feel that maybe the resistance has become to small. I am however very optimistic for the future of Star Wars beyond this trilogy with the teaser of the force sensitive boy at the end (although they have to be very careful about how they develop him).
To conclude, there were some weak areas but overall the film meet my expectations of being thrilling, exciting and pushing Star wars in a new direction.