Darryl Hardin

It was good, not great. I enjoyed it but would have liked to see actual continuity of the original story. Star Wars can and has gone beyond the Skywalker Saga in leaps and bounds in other literature, to attempt to go beyond it in the Skywalker Saga movies was a poor move. The fans expected to see their favorites all together again and that never happened and now it never will. Great character setups had their growth stunted or dropped completely. Rey's growth became almost impossible for a Hero's journey as she was already everything that embodied a hero from the outset. It's a shame the way the sequels were handled.

It's got a action and good actors, but the plotlines are terrible and predictable.

Feels like this movie was made solely to preach at a young generation about it's time on the phone and the color of it's hair. The story and the characters are flat, flat, flat. At one point a gnome makes a statement about how much it hates cellphones and then immediately sticks a pipe in it's mouth. I hope it was intended, because otherwise it seems to say that cell phones are bad but tobacco is good. I normally don't try to dig into a movie like I have this one, but the movie seems to just encourage it. it's like when a Christian movie comes out with it's key concern being what the message is rather than actually being entertaining.