The best of the trilogy

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2020)

With a frenetic pace more adequate for this genre without any really attention paid to characters personalities more than "good or bad", Abrams gives us an incredibly entertaining from start to finish without the clearly weaknesses the first two had.
The score is even better than the one from the sequel, the script also much better with its twists and turns and pace.
But at the same time, it uses all the same elements than the first two, but better. And that also brings the weaknesses, like the weak characters, the forced emotion that just do not really work, the generic third act and the repetition of things that are a mark of this particular IP (the freaking deus ex machina: mask and voice modulator, even if now explained, have to stop).
So yeah, it is much better, but it can't solve the problems of the franchise to elevate it into "great" territory for my taste.