Loved it

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2017)

It was funny, action-packed, and gets you right in the feels. The visuals were stunning and frankly, the movie wasn't bogged down with some silly romance which is what kills it for me in other sci-fi movies. They keep that to a minimum and ramp up the humor a notch instead. Without giving away too much, they've toned down Kylo Ren a bit as well and actually make a tongue-in-cheek joke about that as well.
Only the fanboys who are in way too deep are giving this bad reviews. Take 100 of them and put them in the room and they will give you 100 half-baked ideas on what the franchise should do. They don't realize how hard this is with icons dying and other icons just simply wanting out and then having to introduce new characters and maintain the narrative that they've been at war for over 40 years. That's a long time.
I'm old enough to have seen episodes 5 and 6 in the theaters and I'm telling you, this movie is as good if not better than Empire. It wasn't perfect but who cares? Neither was Empire. There were some obvious scenes that borrowed from stuff you've seen before like Battlestar Galactica and previous SW movies but again, so what?
Let's face it, you're gonna see it anyway so sit back and enjoy.