Adam Driver was worth the admission fee alone...

Rating: 7/10 (18 December 2017)

A lot of positives here. The acting was solid and Adam Driver was excellent, despite the hammy script and it had a number of fantastic set pieces and spectacular space battles. After the predictability of The Force Awakens, it was a pleasant surprise to have some actual plot twists. Its not perfect and dragged a little in the middle (which could have been fixed by replacing the whole codebreaker section with a 2 minute montage) and despite the long running length, there was a number of unanswered questions. Ignore the haters, whilst some editing and a script rewrite would have improved the movie, only a fool would score it less than four stars.