An unpopular opinion but here we go

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2019)

I'm a last Jedi fan, actually a massive fan, I really thought it was brilliant, original and creative. So, it's a bit of a bummer in my opinion that most of it was retconned, sure I wasn't a massive Rose Tico fan but she is given the Jar Jar treatment in this movie, no mention of her love interest with Finn. Suddenly the emperor is back, suddenly Rey goes from someone to noone to being the grandaughter of Palps, I was a fan of her being a nobody, just a random Jedi, but yeah they kinda crapped on everything from The Last Jedi. Ok, I guess maybe that'll make a lot of people happy but to me it makes it feel incohesive as a trilogy and rather weird to me. Anyway with that out of the way there was a still a lot of good about this movie, obvs sets, chi, that was all great. But like most will say the dynamic between Rey and Kylo is soooo good still, I'm glad they kept the force Skype thing from the last Jedi, and it got even stronger. The lightsaber duels between the 2 are freaking sweet and Palps looks pretty good even though it seems a bit forced Leia was handled really well, her death was a really clever idea and it oddly worked with the old footage. So some good and some bad and a lot of inbetween. However I'm sure in 20 years these will be as revered as the prequels are now.