Pretty good!

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2018)

I enjoyed it more the second time around, when I picked up little things that I must have blinked over the first time - like the broom - and some really great set pieces, like the At At Walkers suspended in the factory set ablaze, and seeing the people standing in Kylo Ren's hovering ship from a far away shot. Some of these incredible scenes last for only a second and it's easy to miss how much went into making this look so great. I would have gone a different direction for some things - it wasn't made clear that alot of the main protagonists were, at one point, on the same ship, just in different locations on that ship - so that was a bit confusing when it all came together. I wouldn't have given Laura Dern purple hair as though she just walked in from the set of the Hunger Games. Casting Finn and Rose together seemed like an attempt to force a multicultural agenda - their storyline was the weakest in the film, especially after Benicio del Toro gets involved - this whole chapter should have been rewritten. On the positive side, Adam Driver - an actor I don't particularly fancy - was incredible as Kylo Ren. Every line he delivered was perfect, and just from his eyes you could see the conflict within. Brilliant