the hyperspace kamikaze shot, the opening bomber run, and the blood red salt at Crait -- that's everything I ever want from Star Wars at its peak.

I still love Rey, glad Poe got more time, thought Finn was wasted, it was time to move on from Leia, Hamill was great, the Rey-Kylo stuff was very good but I will never agree with the casting of Adam Driver. Kylo Ren died for me when he took off his mask in The Force Awakens. BB8 is great, but he was too much of a deus ex machina here -- basically became the go-to bail-out for everyone.

overall enjoyable, yet somehow less than the sum of its parts. maybe because the ending was neither classic Star Wars fairytale nor cliff-hanger.

and Leia force-floating through space was stupid. the idea is stupid, it looked stupid, and it spawned nothing interesting but stupid debates.