"To boldy go..."

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2018)

It's pretty simple: if you take out the prequels, ever SW movie since The Empire Strikes Back, almost 40 years ago, revolves around the bad guys building a planet/star-killer thingy (and the good guys trying to destroy it) - Return Of The Jedi, Rogue One, The Force Awakens... Well, this one is different, and obviously the planet/star-killer-thingy-get's-blown-to-bits type of story loving fans, are not going to take it.
Is it a masterpiece? No, but it's a breath of fresh air; it's new, it's risky, it goes where JJ Abrahams didn't have the guts to go - no, he just recycled something that already existed; what a hero! (i trully fear what he'll do for Episode IX, just to please the "fans"; probably we'll get "e-Moks", furry little creatures that will cuddle the First Order to death...)
And of course, the shattering of the Good vs Evil farce - the world is not black-and-white, and now neither is SW. Gee, what a tragedy...! "Luke is a saint, he can't do *that*!" Grow up! Even SW has grown up; what's your excuse?