overall a good film, just one bad scene

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2017)

Despite what long-term Star Wars fans will have you believe, this film is very well made overall, and in my opinion it is in par with logan or similar modern films. There is one scene, however, that I did not like. CGI aside, the opening scene is inconsistent, random, and simply ridiculous. The basis of this scene is that one of the main characters, Poe, irrationally decides to single-handedly take on a massive star destroyer in a head-on attack. This is simply inconsistent with Poe's character, and just seems like a stupid decision. It's like they created the irrationality for this film just to draw parallels to the original 3 films. I was bugged throughout the entire film that this arrogant and frankly stupid side of Poe was just shoved in our faces. However, this is a mistake that even some classic film franchises have made (I'm looking at you DC) so I'll only take one star off for it. But in general this film absolutely blew me away. Also, some have complained about the comedy in this film. While one part seemed forced (May the force be with you), most of the comedy was modern and effective. star wars fans to go and enjoy it. This is definitely the best film to come out of disney in a while so I recommend any casual For the hardcore star wars fans who want it to respect the source material to no end, maybe stay away.