Way too much hate in this world

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2017)

I went to see it last night and all I'm seeing is so many people panning the film like it was the worst piece of work ever done under the Star Wars saga banner.
There is no intention of spoiling the film for any potential viewers but all I can say is that you need to remind yourself why you wanted to see it in the first place.
Now it's hard for me to objective about it because I was 7 years old when I went to see the original and have been an avid fan for the past 40 years but the whole purpose of a review IS to be subjective as it's solely your opinion on the film, nobody else should influence you into making a decision about what you expect from a movie. All I can say is that it met almost all the expectations I had and nothing will change that.
When I fell in love with the Star Wars universe I was a child, it gave me an opportunity to escape from being a schoolboy on planet Earth and drift off into a place that triggered marvellous things in my imagination, made me want to want to be a part of it and experience it, I absorbed it and let it invoke emotions in me through the entire spectrum that it could possibly have done. I was never interested in how great the script was, or the political messages behind the film or how hammy an actor was.
So 40 years go by and I don't expect anything else from a Star Wars movie other than going through a gamut of emotion and being awestruck by the special effects and John Williams' mastery in film score writing.
It appears that people expect something that NONE of the other films were and will never be happy unless it becomes a serious story in it's own right. It was always meant to be a story for children ( the highest classification any of the movies ever had was PG-13) and to bring back the inner child for a few hours for the adults that go and watch it.
So be a child again, bring your children if you have any and just turn the clock back, sit back and let it remind you of why you are sitting there in the first place