There were a few plot holes (Laura Dern you dumb purple haired bitch tell your crew what you're doing jesus), the comedy wasn't very good and the asian girl who can't act could've just not been there and nothing would've really changed.

But hot damn if this isn't the most fun I've had in a movie theater in ages.

I feel like an idiot for typing this out that oooh the lightsabers wer reall gud u guys but the action in this movie holy shit. It's beautiful. This is the best looking movie I've maybe ever seen, the cinematography in some shots is fucking iconic.

The movie also didn't just do what I thought it was going to do and that was impressive as shit. The rebels escaping with the whole "oooh they'll never see us" didn't all get blown to bits, Leia didn't die just because Carrie Fisher did, Mark Hamil wasn't just evil and bitter, Kylo didn't just turn good all of a sudden. With a worse script, this movie would've blown chunks and been just another "oooh it's gotta be dark and they gotta loose because thats what happened in empire"

It played with expectations masterfully, the entire scene in the chamber with Snoke was actually tense because I dunno what the fuck's going on in this movie. There's no way they're actually going to kill the big baddie here and they can't really escape so I don't--- oh hey look at that he's dead.

That whole scene's probably been criticized but I felt like it was jussst clever enough to not be cheesy. I was engaged with the scene because all of the actors brought their A game, so I didn't get taken out of it by that. It's just like when they kill the Witch King in Return of the King; if you look at it out of context yeah it's kinda silly that this big baddy can be killed by a grammar loophole, but in the heat of it I'll be damned if that wasn't badass.

The battles just felt so alive. At least when a handful of characters were fighting eachother, not so much the space stuff. There was this emotion and intensity behind them that just felt so raw and powerful, something that was pretty absent in The Force Awakens outside of the ending.

It's far from perfect, but good god was it a fantastic movie. We need more of this stuff in Star Wars, weird twists and turns that play with our expectations, rather than Rogue One crap where we know the outcome before buying a ticket.