A lot better than expected

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2018)

After reading a lot of bad reviews and media about the PC element to the film I actually didn't bother watching it until recently. I was really surprised how good it was. I literally felt like an 8 year old again durring some of the scenes. I did notice what felt like a mostly female cast, its hard not to, but even the stereotypical useless General was a women, and the Black Male was made to look like a coward and stupid, so all in all it wasn't politically correct in the typical sense it was actually really well done and didn't look to promote any particular group, in-fact it was open season on all of them, and although noticeable did not impede on the story, but it is enough to make it the topic of what a lot of people talk about after watching it. I think the story line is very clever and really makes you wonder which way the story is going to go. Some people have written that the story is direction less, but I think they are just accustomed to watching movies where the storyline is obvious and easily anticipated, this movie is very difficult to predict. There is nothing shocking about any of it and in the end it makes perfect sense. There are a few bits that are disappointing where you want the awesomeness of the force and Luke to save the day - when actually its just a mind trick, seriously if they had given the audience what it really would have like to see on this then people would have been out their seats cheering in the audience, how they resisted to do it that way is an absolute mystery and shows some restraint, but I guess they wanted something unpredictable and nothing that could be cheesy . The special effects were also spot on. I really enjoyed the movie a lot, for me its definitely as good as The Force Awakens and will be one that I watch again.