I liked it

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2017)

I didn't like 'The Force Awakens'
Some spoilers below.
I'd read several critics reviews and a lot of IMDB negative reviews. So recalibrated my level of expectancy. I wouldn't have watched the film, except I was invited to attend by a friend. So I went.
And I liked it. I didn't like the dreadnaught ship and the bombers scene. It didn't seem to work. And I don't much like how they keep putting big new space craft in these films without much explanation.
The opening humour between Poe and Hux was misjudged and there was a lot of humour, mostly, I think the humour worked. Some touches were too much. Like when Luke dusted off his shoulder in his final duel with Kylo.
Leia shouldn't have flown in space. I liked the Porgs, I'd like one. I liked the storyline where they went to the casino. I really liked the horses scene.
The telepathic connection between Rey and Kylo was dramatic. I can't get past Carrie Fishers plastic surgerised face.
It's funny how most of the male characters were portrayed as dumbasses and the women were all coming to the rescue.
The Samuri pretaurian guard dress was overdone. Kylo's killing of Snoke was well done, him deceiving Snoke by moving both lightsabers at the same time was good.
Did anybody else think this? The three leaders, General Hux, Supreme Leader Snoke And Kylo Ren all seemed to represent Donald Trump!!! Hux was a buffooon, with blond hair. Snoke in his bathrobe resembled a gross Hugh Hefner, paedophile type. And kylo Ren is a petulant child. All representing Trumps supposed buffoonery, sexual proclivity/indiscretion and his petulance!
The film seemed to have been written by card carrying democrats and all the Social Justice Warrior and political correctness stuff was laid on thick.
I thought daisy Ridley had piled on a few pounds since the last film and maybe wondered if the producers had actually asked her to put weight on? And I can't get past her cockney accent and some of her line delivery was quite poor. (Hopefully Kylo will kill her in the next film).
The planet Crait, red/white stuff was visually good.
I still don't get the slow chase through space plot. Some of the dialogue was clunky and overly expositional.
Well I'm only giving it 4/10. I enjoyed it a bit more than that. But for its faults I'm marking it down.