Its a STAR WARS MOVIE!!!

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2018)

OK, I am NOT a Star Wars junkie and MOST of the time, I cannot follow the PLOT to this movie. Honestly, I cannot keep track of WHICH movie is REALLY first, number 3, or 7 or 5 or 2.
I watch Star Wars because it is the EPIC battle between Good and Evil in a Galaxy Far Far AWAY!
When the FIRST final battle came out and the deathstar was destroyed, I think I was TEN, so MY memory is that of a child, watching my first ever space war.
THIS movie brought me BACK to that point, so for ME< I LOVED this movie.
I have heard MANY people say that the plot line is NOT kept correctly and there are so many holes and non-sensical additions, but MY personal thoughts are, the ENTIRE series CAN be sort of viewed that way and THAT is sort of how it ALWAYS was for me.
I LOVED to see the creations of interplanetary relations and the big screen battles and it ALMOST brought back the VERY first time I saw the movie for me...which I THINK It was trying to do. But I could be VERY wrong. I think it kept to some of those very original ideas and scenes quite well.
The one thing I was very disappointed about was that there were far too many "humanoid" characters; i longed to see MORE out of the creative minds and have MORE of the crazy bar scenes with the unusual creations of interstellar beings.
I was happy to see Chewbacca back, even though nobody has a CLUE what he says. How can you NOT LOVE a 7 foot hairy beast that kicks ass? And C3PO and R2D2 all had roles again.
I don't care that the light sabers hadn't changed since 1980 and that people seemed to walk through bullets and I have never understood why every bad guy ship has giant holes in the floor that people fall through...you would think the architects would FIX that flaw thousands of years in the future, like put up a warning signs "Giant 3000 foot DROP here" or something.
And just HOW DO they navigate tiny space crafts INTO larger space crafts to blow them up? Hey guys, DON'T make it so easy to blow up your ships! there is always a way in for another ship to navigate to blow you up...ANOTHER huge architectural flaw...personally, I would NOT have all those unguarded entrances if MY sheilds were up, but THAT is what we have come to LOVE about Star Wars movies...and hey, this is NOT a spoiler, this happens in EVERY movie...a tiny ship sneaks into the maze of unprotected something on the big ship and blows it up.
And, of course, there is ALWAYS a way to make ANOTHER Star Wars Movie...a number 8 or a 3.4 and I WILL be there to watch it because it is the fantasy stuff my childhood space dreams were made of, LARGER than life on the big screen, aliens, foreign languages, wacky outfits, huge explosions, predictable endings, heroic good guys that never take injuries, bad guys that cannot be killed off and technicolor battles that time warp into eternity in a galaxy far, far away....