WE ARE SO SORRY

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2020)

...for what we've done before, please forgive us! - that's the slogan of the movie.
There is an old saying: how to make a fool happy? Take something from him and then give it back.
180 degree turn from the R.J.'s blasphemous attempt to "rethink" the SW legacy back to J.J.'s cozy nostalgia world of cross-references, touchy cameos and teeny-weeny cute robots/animals. I believe they even utilize some ideas from the Old Republic universe as the emperor is still alive and his hideout looks well like some Korriban ruins (not a bad thing to me 'cause if you can't think for yourself get the help from someone talented, Drew Karpyshyn in this case). If only this movie was the 8th episode everybody would react like "well, okay... kinda... sorta..." but now they praise J.J. and co as never before... What we have here is actually a stop-gap. Everything that was bent in 8th is bent again in 9th - backwards, and now it's twisted like a Tony Cragg's sculpture. 8th episode have pushed away the old SW fans, 9th just made SW boring.
And - just think of it. "The Rise of Skywalker" actually shows us all the skywalkers dead. All of them. It's "The End of Skywalker". And "the last jedi", despite the phony attempt to hide herself under the pseudonym, is Rey Palpatine. What a glorious finale to 9-episode saga. I feel disturbance in the force.