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Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2017)

This is my first review on this site simply because I'm surprised about the backlash this movie gets on here.
I have to admit that when I saw the movie for the first time I didn't like it. I was disappointed like the majority on here. But I think thats simply because, like in some reviews mentioned, we had over 30 years to speculate and dream of how it would be to see Luke Skywalker at the height of his power. Getting out his green lightsaber, cutting through legions of stormtroopers an pulling stardestroyers from the sky. Well we didn't get that.
But we did get one of the most amazing force actions in the whole saga. Luke managed to save the rest of the resistence, to buy enough time for them to get off the planet and to hold of the troops of the first order. And he did that without harming anyone.
That is clearly not the dream of us nerds who wanted to see him wrecking the bad guys with a light saber, but it is completely in line with the luke skywalker from ROTJ who tossed away his lightsaber after refusing to strike down Vader.
Of course the film has flaws, some big ones even, like the slomo chase, the canto bight sub plot and Super-Leia. But it has some of the most impressive and well executed scenes of the entire saga as well.
Holdos sacrifice left the cinema speechless, the whole throneroom scene will be one of the most memorable scenes in the franchise. The reunion of the skywalker twins was on point. Yoda being OT Yoda in his teaching, his humour and appearance was just heartwarming.
So the film has its weaknesses and it surely isn't the best star wars film ever (in my opinion) but it takes all the characters to new places and it perfectly sets the stage for a grand finale of the skywalker saga.