I had a bad feeling about this...

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2017)

Yes, there are a lot of small things that annoyed me. The marmot-penguin hybrid things, for example. (But then again: remember the ewoks?) Or Leia suddenly having strong Jedi-powers. (Remember Fin being able to fight with a light saber?) Or the fact that no one said "I have a bad feeling about this" (or did I just miss that?)
But I do not want to go on about these, as I am sure that you will read a lot more about it in other reviews.
So, here's my main impression. I expected the movie to be as bad as TFA. (I rated that one 3/10.) And it turned out to be better than that, even correcting some of its major mistakes. Here are some examples of what I mean:
1) They did not build a fourth death star. Finally, they stopped.
2) Gollum just doesn't cut it as a sith lord. They realized that and killed him off quickly.
3) While I still cannot take Kylo Ren seriously, at least he got rid of that ridiculous mask.
4) And given the cornerstones of Kylo's story set in TFA, they managed to give a little more depth to it. And honestly, I do not see how there could have been a lot more. Remember, he is that child, that just decided to be evil, because his grandpa was... for a while. (Compare this to Anakin: he has a whole trilogy to explain why he turned evil!)
5) How lame would it have been had we found out that Rey is Kylo's sister or cousin or whatever? Finishing that thread in the anticlimactic way they did, was the right move.
So, given that the trilogy started so very poorly, I think this was nearly the best one could do. It still leaves the trilogy hanging in midair though, the main villain being dead and Kylo Ren being just an angry child and all. But after this, I will go and watch episode IX in cinemas as well.