I really enjoyed it and found it fresh

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2018)

I'm personally writing this review to show that there are fans of TLJ. I found it a fresh of breathe air and in my opinion the risks pulled of better than I thought.
First my main complaints. Yes the writing for Rose and Holdo wasn't good, I understood why they were there but they didn't add that much, Rose was just unnecessary but no where in a galaxy far far away as bad as jar jar, and Holdo is a character I feel would have had development in a previous movie but just wasn't pulled off right, bit swapping he rout for akbar wouldnt fix anything, in my opinion it would have detracted from the film. And the casino sub plot was unnecessary and it could have been put to better use by building the character of phasma, but its only like 20 minutes in this 2hr long movie so on 2nd viewing it didn't drag like I first thought.
The reason I LOVE this film is far the Kilo, Ray an Like plot, its at such a high for me. Kilo is easily my favourite villain in Sw now. I love how he's not perfect and how he is constantly challenged. Luke also steals the show, I found it made perfect sense for the way he is, Luke was never perfect and he always screwed up in the previous films so why is it a problem here? I also loved how we learned all this through Ray and I was personally more attached to her, twist and all. The action is the best it's ever been, the film is visually amazing (apart from a couple shots) and the 2nd and 3rd act had me on the edge of my seat.
As for thongs that didn't bother me let's talk about Snoke. Is its disappointing that he's not used to his fullest, yes, but I never carded for him anyways, as far as vilians go Kilo was always the most interesting while Snoke I found to be boring mostly, he worked just like the emporer did in the original films. And the polictal messages I just didn't see, I listened to someone explain them, rewatched the film an dust didn't agree that they were there, that's all I'm saying on that.
I just want to show that while there are a lot of people that hate it (which is fine BTW) there are still a hugh crowd that like or even love the film and I am one of them.
The lows were low but not prequel levels of bad I thought while the highs were such a high for me.