Calm down, stop looking too deeply into everything and enjoy it for what it is

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2018)

As a massive Star Wars fan, I, like many other waited with such great anticipation for this film, I loved the trailers and saw the film at midnight on the opening day, my initial reaction was OMG IMDB 1/10. I think the problem is all fans had an idea of where the story should go and it let many down simply because it didn't follow their own expectations. Lets get the negatives out the way, the "casino scene" dare I say, is the worst scene from any SW film in history (and that saying something with Jar Jar) ..the bit where BB8 fires the coins ..omg what were they thinking, like many dreadful BB8 scenes, trying to make it far to comical. The second worst scene in SW history is also in this film with Leia flying though space back to her ship! But enough of the criticism, what was good? Ive seen it 7 times now at the cinema, its grown on me to a point where I love it...why? This is a sci-fi film, there is no basis for faulting on whats possible or not as a Jedi, or on real science, in one of the last scenes when the Falcon is battling TIE fighters above a planet surface, the G forces on Rey would knock her out!, nor should you criticise characters actions, like Luke's reaction to Ben turning to the dark side and what followed...if you sit back and enjoy it for what it is and stop looking to deeply into everything you will like it....virtually ever film can be taken to pieces (apart from Alien). For me this film was made by Adam Driver's performance as Kylo Ren, which is just brilliant, climaxing with his battle with "Luke", aided by a great music score. Mark Hamill's performance comes good in that scene, you get the feeling his heart wasn't in the island scenes. Driver's stunning performance is what makes this film though, his Jedi counterpart Rey is likeable and Daisy Ridley's shone in a few scenes, but she doesn't have Driver's intensity, Finn and Poe both play good parts (sometimes with poor scripts and to many silly jokes) There has been a lot of nonsense spoke of the female characters , Carrie Fisher xx we love you and you will always be "the princess", Laura Dern as Vice Admiral was tremendous, I can understand the criticism with the Rose character though but given the script/scenes she had, even Liz Taylor would had struggled ! I don't get Phasma this is political correctness gone mad, why out of all the "male" storm troopers, Phasma is a "female" captain, where did she come from lol (she wasn't helped by her lines)...Anyway watch it again, sit back, enjoy and STOP looking so deeply into everything