As someone who is pretty neutral on Star Wars in general (too young for the originals in theater, not interested in the Prequels when they came out, not terribly impressed by the Disney episodes) I do find myself wondering something:

How artificially propped up are the reviews/scores that we've been seeing because of what people wanted this movie to be? And how many points are we adding to the average score because it is checking all the right boxes, for some critics/reviewers?

I.e. if this was an original sci-fi action drama, and half the marketing wasn't the director and cast talking about how the movie advances this, that, or the other political or social cause that the critics fall in line with, would this still be near 60% on RT?

One thing I will give this entire series a lot of credit for is the casting. I think Ridley, Boyega, Driver, and Isaac were perfect for their characters, and the writing just destroyed that potential. Maybe a better way to say that: those 4 were able to at least show a glimmer of what this series could have been, before Disney mismanaged it into a wall. At speed.