Partially a review, but more of a response to all the hate.

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2019)

Many long-time fans of cinema have been very sad and angry about the direction that modern blockbusters have gone lately, focusing mostly on cheap thrills, action or weak and expectable interpretations of love and other emotions (often completely overwhelmed by the action-sequences). People seemingly look at this phenomenon as a virus or a plague, that corrupts the film-industry, taking over their favorite franchises and directors, picturing a scene in their heads, in which the vicious businessmen are offering them an incredible amount of money in exchange for downgrading their carrier into making crowdpleasers without any form of depth, original ideas or new forms of portraying stories. I am not saying that this is untrue. If we look at the whole picture and the amount of money that they're spending on these films, we might see that it is kind of sad, thinking how that money could have been spent on several smaller, but from an artistic angle way more promising productions. But I think that that is the whole point: you don't need hundreds of millions to make a good movie, fantastic films are being made today with the budget of literally 2 seconds of a movie like The Rise of Skywalker. When we see a blockbuster movie, like a Marvel production, we might get sad thinking that this is indeed what people desire today, that they rather want to feel their heart pumping during a chase-scene or a battle than to dwell on the deaper meanings of a movie for weeks. We might think that they are just young people, not educated enough or not smart enough to understand the actually good movies, but I am not seeing so much of a problem here as others. The smallest thing we should be worried about today is the lack of recognition of talent. Money and care being put into finding and fostering talented people is higher than it has ever been. The fact that from a financial standpoint, blockbusters take up the biggest part of the film-industry doesn't mean that they take away the chances of the smaller filmakers or studios and their more artistic productions, it just means that the whole thing is growing in a scale that is unimaginable. If the majority of people, mostly young people look at the cinema as a fun-park not a museum, that way most cinemas will eventually adapt to fulfilling their desires.But, my opinion being based on personal experience, I can wholeheartedly promise that one day those young people might discover the actual power of stories, the beuty of movies and start to make their way into looking at film from a more artistic angle. And I think that the people who despise this new direction of mainstream movies, should get confortable and enjoy the flashes and the heat of explosions and battles, instead of searching for depth and thinking of ways in which what they see could have been executed better.
Maybe it is just me, who is against this culture of hating and criticising the hell out of movies instead of looking at their good side. Maybe it is just me who doesn't understand how feeling bad about something and cursing it can make you feel better than marvelling at how some of the elements are making you drop your jay to the ground. Because believe me, if you do that, you leave behind your prejudices, you might enjoy a movie like this just as much as a highly praised piece of art, just not exactly the same way.
If I say all of this then, you might ask, why am I not giving this movie a high rating? Well, though I am generally against hating on mainstream pieces, I know that when you come to make a review of one on a page like this, you can only measure its quality as you might measure the quality of a Tarantino movie: from an artistic perpective, a filmmaking perspective. That means I place the elements I found well-executed or beautiful on one one side of the scale and the ones that I think could have been better or might have even cringed at at the other side and try to portray that opinion on a review and a 1 to 10 scale. That way I can only give this movie a 7. The only thing that I might find completely and utterly deserving of the hate that is coming to it is the overuse of cheap (an mostly bad) humor and, in order to achieve that, the creating of comedic duos or trios whose badly-written dialoges take up half of these movies. I can enjoy the action or a poorly but epicly interpreted message or emotion but bad humor is bad humor, I can't look at that in any other way. Most of these dialoges are completely filed down to their core, allowing conversations or punchlines to simply end in a "NO" or a "YES", which is cleerly not the way you write great dialogue. There are inconsistencies in this movie that could have been explained by a shot half a second long but weren't and that made me a bit unconfortable. Because the things i mentioned the movie kind of became a bit dull at the middle, but at the end of the second half I honestly think that they did a good job, finally ending the series. Most people, I presume, are feeling angry now, because this wave, that turns franchises and studios into producing more mainstream movies, have tragically made its way to their favorite movies, the Star Wars movies. I cannot really feal their hate now, because I don't consider myself a particular Star Wars fan, but I can only recommend to those who are, that they separate this trilogy from the ones they grew up with as a child and look at it in a way that I have explained before. And I honestly don't know what they expected anyway, I mean the tone of this movie could be seen from miles away, not just from the trailers, but the 2 pretty similar movies that were made before.
This review is more of a response to the hate and anger that can be found in these reviews, so I will not spoil anything to anyone who's just looking at this section while deciding if he/she wants to go see this movie or not. And I think if you are able to concentrate on the good elements of movies and if you can switch your brain to follow a more mainstream approach, than you might come out of the cinema with a smile on your face.
This review might sound a bit undecisive and unorganised, but this is just because I couldn't fully express my way of thinking towards this movie, especially towards people who very much like to hate on it, but after reading this, you might realise the essence of what I am saying here and that is all I need.