To sum up the movie in one sentence:

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2017)

Snoke is a silly joke in a yellow bathrobe compared to Palpatine. And so is this movie compared to Episode V, even to Episode III in my opinion.
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Before I am going to mention my main issues I have with this movie let me say I had some really good laughs, intended and unintended ones, and the movie was well made, but the story...oh boy.
As I read somewhere at least one subplot is totally pointless because it leads nowhere, namely the "casino plot" where Benicio del Toro comes in, what a waste of a good actor. I learnt when some sub plot is pointless, you just cut it. Also the internal logic of this sub plot stinks: if that admiral with the purple hair just would have explained their plan to Poe all would have gone well, very well to be exact. So we have a whole pointless sub plot because some leader didn't want to explain their plan. When this lady assumed command and looked clueless I felt: Where is Captain Kirk when you need him?
The other main issue I have is this:
Killing off your vain villain is o.k., but not in the damn middle of the trilogy! Here is the strength of the original trilogy when it comes to the main villain: Although the emperor is mentioned in ANH, you have the impression Vader is main bad guy, only in TESB you see the emperor for the first time as a hologram and in ROTJ for real. In this sense TFA feels like part 2 of a trilogy and TLJ as part 3, but it just is supposed to be the 2nd part. What good is that?
Kudos to Disney, you have manouvered yourself in an excellent position with that. So the whole storyline of TFA and TLJ feels like two people were working on it and Rian Johnson just didn't like JJ's creation of Snoke so he kills him off in a most silly way, one of the unintended laughs.
As sad as the passing of Carrie Fisher was, why not kill Leia? Do some reshoots, but no, Luke has to go. Really well done. The only explanation I have is that they did a lot of reshoots in order to kill off Snoke and then set of a new trilogy with that kid in the end....here we go again.....
I never thought I'd say this, but I really miss Mr. Lucas' talent for constructing and telling storys.
EDIT: Almost 48hrs later after I watched the movie I am still feeling disappointed. The analytical part of me still says, the movie isn't that bad so my 6 stars will stay, but the Star Wars Fan boy heart is so sad. I still don't know if I can joyfully rewatch the original episodes because I know what is going to happen to Luke later.
The only explanation I have is this: George Lucas sold to Disney to get revenge on all these prequel haters so he can say: "See that big pyle of Micky Mouse poodoo you can get?"