Great ending with unique settings - find your personal moment

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2019)

Palpatine's laughter returned to life and frighteningly similar to the one we saw in Ep III is the direct guiding thread of the three sagas of SW. It is as if his had always been the threat to the Galaxy, a ghost then emperor then a dead. Evil, the dark side is sometimes scary. As in EPVI, however, there is always room for minor characters who fight and subvert great powers. And the Jedi.
The Jedi are all there but they cannot be seen. This time ABRAMS does not use a called easy ghost trick or visual Deus Ex Machina to save the situation. Only two boys, helping each other beyond the dark fate that the dark Sith Lord had prepared for them for his benefit. The scene of the Jedi voices encouraging Rey is so cool. As well as the subsequent defeat of evil.
Adam Driver as Ben Solo steals the show for how credibly he changes his character is appropriate for both history and redemption theory. He is the son of Skywalker and Solo. Nice father / son relationship. Rey's life is more drawn, it turns out that he is Palpatine's grandson, but little else is known of the parents, except that they wanted to protect her .. her final choice to call herself "Skywalker" with her rebirth and final choice of the light side, a sign of gratitude to both Luke and Ben, put it in perspective to give new life to the good in the galaxy, perhaps with new Jedi to train ..
It matters little that there are so many explanations why there had been none in SW (and thank goodness that some things remain unexplained .. Luke's sword .. Rey's parents okay are Palpatine's children but nothing else is said. .) and that the rhythm never softens from the tablet .. it is SW in light speed, which tries on the fly to apologize for some choices of Ep VIII and that sometimes self-activates too much.
Crazy special effects, Leia has an important role and is treated with respect, the music is really at the highest point of synthesis and arrangement in the career (very long) of Maestro John Williams, who takes up and recreates many themes and uses them in a way unexpected.
Many, I read, are not happy. Probably many don't write and they are. It is difficult to understand why we try so much to judge it as a film in its own right. Yes it is a saga with three opposing tones, with the last three being for sure "more of the same". Still the construction of the new characters in three films is valid, and the ending does not disappoint, even if, for the amount of everything that has been Star Wars until yesterday, it will not be able to satisfy everyone even and precisely because the producers aimed (in vain) to satisfy us all. So the advice is to find our moment, the one that pleases us most as a fan, there are many to choose from (mine is the medal to Chewbacca, the character that I have preferred most of the comeback), gliss on others that for us clash (and for others not) and live peacefully with this saga .. and may the force be with us.