**May include spoilers** Enjoyed......but not blown away....

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2017)

If i am honest, i hated The Force Awakens (granted i only seen it once, which tells you why i hated it), this film seemed a bit more interesting in terms of story however I can't help but think they are just simply recycling the luke/leia sibling story from the prequels with rey/kylo, even though nothing is concrete about her past/origin, i can't help but think that these films now just purposely lead people on with mystery for specific characters just keep the audience interested and hooked on this franchise, giving it the only relevance to remain a franchise. The whole "who are rey's parents?", i don't think anyone cares anymore if i am honest, all people want to see nowadays is some decent lightsaber duels (which this film was ridiculously short on by the way, might as-well have left them out).
Even though the dialogue was laughable back in ROTS, at least the choreography spoke up for itself.
To add, Snoke was as much of a let down as a villain as Iron Man 3's Mandarin, talk about hyping someone up and leading people to theorise who this person is for not 1 but 2 YEARS, only for him to pray victim to a basic force skill to kill him which a padawan learner could have thought of!
The problem is these days is Star Wars is really nothing to get excited about as these films are now supposed to target a much younger audience, with die-hard veteran fans constantly wanting more of the old stuff. This is supposed to be a massive sci-fi action film, now it just seems too story-focused. (i bet you kids that saw the old leia footage from R2-D2 had no idea who that was or where that was from, but other fans (like myself) know better of course)
To add, i cannot help but think that every time I see some "cute" creature like those duck/bird/chicken's type thing that chewie tried to eat and those crystal covered cats, that it's just nothing but a ploy for Disney to sell thousands/millions of dollars worth of toys/teddies just so they can exploit this franchise, even if those creatures had no relevance to the story whatsoever!
To sum up, good film, but could have been alot better, still it's the best of these recent films so far.