I just saw it. It was EXCELLENT!!!!
Rotten Tomatoes is a contra-indicator in my book.
I give it a B minus. For one thing, it was too long.
There are also no really good memorable new characters.
Kylo is 1/1000th the villain that Darth Vadar was. But of course there will never be any villain who is in the same league as Darth Vadar.
Carrie Fisher looked like an 80 year old woman with ill-fitting dentures, very sad to see her that way. Leia was always a feisty spitfire, there was none of that spark in her character.
Was it sad, seeing Carrie Fischer?
Only for fanboys..
EXCELLENT NOT, it is.
It is not bad, but it is far from excellent.
The Rose character was so poorly written and acted that it was like watching something out of the prequels every time she was involved in a scene.
The entire casino city scene was forced, horribly bad... written poorly, executed poorly, acted poorly... and served only to be a little political push... It was aweful and I am amazed it wasn’t left on the cutting room floor.
The rest of the movie was good... not great, but good... Could have been better.
From the larger context, I think the problem (other than the flagrant ones listed above) is the move of the series away from Good and Evil to shades of grey.... That’s not Star Wars.