Definitely Improvement from Force Awakens but its still missing the Lucas touch

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2017)

I never thought I'll have so mixed feelings about Star Wars movie, but here it is. Its both disappointment and not
I am glad it have some originality and depth in it, something that was lacking in previous Disney movies but still doesnt make it so great, there is space for more improvement and changes.
Story was interesting, well written for the most parts. It feels like Empire Strike Back at the moments but its definitely not.
Its overfilled with content and characters that are not so important for the main story still manages to be enjoyable and unpredictable till the very end, filled with mini twists and turns.
Direction is slightly better than Force Awakens but it still jump from scene to scene too fast. Its visually stunning as expected, action scenes are best in Star Wars yet but should had been little longer. The biggest problem is probably too much jokes all the time, added them in scenes that should be serious, killing almost every chance for tension, somethings thats becoming trend is such movies.
Acting was mostly good or at least bearable, even tho it feels younger ones were close to the line of being bad, especially Daisy Ridley.
Movie is trying to be fun, emotional and inspiring, just like original Star Wars was but again fails to deliver the full essence.
It can be seen that Rian gave his best to continue the franchise with things he got from Force Awakens but failed to build new the tension instead just wrap up the previous one . The way it ends didnt leave anything interesting nor exciting for next movie.
7.4/10