Everybody still mad about The Phantom Menace?

Rating: 10/10 (30 March 2018)

I gave it a 6 because I like to rate movies based on the entire spectrum of the film industry...and there are some truly TERRIBLE movies out there. That said, in my book, a 6 rating is basically what I would consider as "watchable."
The movie seemed extremely lost for about the first hour or so. It just kind of flopped around aimlessly without purpose for the first half. The story was not building. The characters were not building. It was just a bunch of nonsense.
There were some unforgivable parts that really ruined things. The humor at the beginning, while funny, just seemed really out of place for a Star Wars movie. It felt like I was watching Spaceballs 2: The Search for more Money. The Princess Leia spacewalk scene was unbelievable and completely unnecessary. The telepathy scenes between Rei and Kylo Ren were awkward and completely out of nowhere. The "relationship" between Finn and Rose unlikely and added nothing to the storyline.
I could go on but most of the reviews here have touched on them already. I will say that once the story settled in a little bit, focused and gained traction, it wasn't so bad. The last 30-40 minutes of the movie seemed to get back to being Star Wars and the final battle/action scenes made it worth watching.