I thoroughly enjoyed this as did my 11-year-old son (9/10 for him), my brother, and my 10-year-old nephew.

The thing about the ST is that it made me “feel” something with Star Wars again. I know it’s fan-service, nostalgia, and “member-berries”, but I really did enjoy the ST (well…most of it). I truly cared about the characters this time around. I think that’s the ultimate failure of the PT for me. The ideas are cool, but the execution was so bad that it didn’t succeed in making me care.

Cue Luke…“Well, I care.”

ROS rights the two big wrongs from TLJ for me. Finn and Poe are not Laurel and Hardy anymore. They’re back to being the characters they were in TFA. This made much of the film way more enjoyable for me when compared to TLJ (which has great moments and very bad ones).

Yes, it’s at a break-neck pace and there are issues all over the place. But, the ST feels like Star Wars again. This is something the PT failed to do for both my brother and me.

Hoping to see this again very, very soon.

And last…I love Star Wars. I always will. But if I’m being honest with myself, there are only two great films (SW77 & ESB) surrounded by varying levels of good to awful (looking at you, AOTC).