I enjoyed it. Fuck y'all. 
It's certainly got its flaws, but there's a whiff of "cool to hate it" encircling this now. The sequel series has certainly faltered at times and suffered from, seemingly, not having a proper trilogy-long story plotted out in advance ... and while there's an air of "bringing it in for a safe landing" (ironic considering how many unsafe landings are depicted in the film  ), it doesn't deserve to be slammed either, far from it.
They did the best they could, considering the circumstances, with Leia and trying to tie up her story - but it's an impossible task to pull of perfectly when your actress has sadly passed away and you're (wisely) not doing the CGI recreation route.
I liked that a large chunk of the movie featured Rey, Finn, and Poe on-screen together after everyone was split apart in the last movie, and C3-PO got much more to do this time around, which was nice - and Chewie, still kind of underused, at least got some powerful moments:
There's the odd thing that really didn't work for me, e.g.:
I generally felt that the film did a solid enough job navigating around some of the developments in The Last Jedi:
I enjoyed the sense of redemption that the film offered up, and the scale was impressive - and visually it was spectacular.
The main annoyance? The wee bastard kicking my seat from behind. A Dad with his three boys - do some parenting, ya numpty, you're right there and can see he's fussing his feet about on the back of my seat FIVE damn times, tell him to pack it in. Naturally, I was too polite to say anything because I'm British, so just passive aggressively shunted my reclining seat back and forth to nudge the little prick's legs off my seat. 
Then, on the way out of the retail park afterwards, I had the most polite car shunt ever. Fortunately there was no damage (a car reversed into me on a congested roundabout), and the driver apologised fully and profusely straight away and accepted full responsibility. I was seeing red as I got out of the car, but I've always been of the opinion that if I'm treated with respect I shall return that in-kind (and likewise if I'm treated disrespectfully then no respect shall be given), and he was very apologetic and apologised to my passenger and we shook hands one decent bloke to another.
So a bit of a palava on the way out (the retail park was fucking heaving, and you basically have to drive through the heart of it to reach the cinema, but the roads are so thin and poxy everything just ground to a near halt), but it was nice to close out the trilogy - and nice to see that the cinema (which I hadn't been to in two years - for SW:TLJ) had been completely refurbished throughout (lobby, toilets, cinema - the lot).
Anyway - back to the film - there's certainly flaws, no doubt about it, with the sequel trilogy ... but billy bollocks is the prequel trilogy better. Come on, Moon. I thought this one did a better job again with Rey (after improvements for her character in #8) - she generally had to fight hard, didn't always succeed, and had been doing a lot of training - and while Finn has never really had an awful lot to do he was better employed in this movie that in TLJ (the Finn/Rose subplot was ultimately totally pointless in TLJ). Similarly, Poe felt more important to proceedings.
There's no doubt that the stewardship of this sequel trilogy has been uneven, but it's also just as true that the fans have been just as all over the bloody shop with their reactions (some of them quite horrendous and unfair - and it's particularly unfair to expect these new films to make you react to them as you did to the original trilogy when your were a child!!!), but at the same time 7 through 9 are totally deserving of some criticisms (why on earth, for instance, would you bring back Star Wars and never have Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie on screen together?)
The movies have faltered most when it comes to story (that feeling of not having a clear trilogy-long roadmap drawn out in advance), but they've also been great spectacle events. Now, The Mandalorian on the other hand, has really brought me into the story and the characters and I'm eagerly awaiting a second season.
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