I didn't believe the haters... Now I do.

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2019)

I really, REALLY enjoyed both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. Their different tones and visions had more positive aspects than negative ones, for me.
But I don't have the faintest clue how filmmaker J.J. Abrams and Oscar winning screenwriter Chris Terrio were capable of writing this sh**. Maybe they were under the influence of narcotics, who knows. That's the simplest explanation I can come up with. I still genuinely can't believe how this was even green lit. It seems like it's the first draft of a bad video-game script. Again, I didn't believe it when I first read the reviews, but it's truth, all of it.
After many people on this site discrediting the haters, plus the high audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, I went to the screening open minded, saying to myself that even if it's bad, it would get at least a 7,5 out of 10. After all it was the gran finale and it was J.J. Abrams. It couldn't be that bad anyway. Oh boy, I was wrong.
I didn't believe the haters when they complained about the plot's convenience. But, literally, LITERALLY the characters get things FROM UP THEIR ASS. They literally fall into the right places when needed and are introduced to new force powers only to get the script flowing. Powers which make aspects of the original trilogy pointless.
One might even say that they simply copied and pasted story beats and dialogue from Avengers: Endgame. All to create a crowd pleasing epicness they thought would work. It's cringy actually.
I see people who liked the movie trying to explain the great, HUGE amount of plot holes by assuming things and creating excuses for them. If a movie ever needs that, it is a bad movie.
Also, there are no consequences whatsoever. Here we have some of the greatest one-movie set-ups of the entire trilogy - but there is no payoff. When you think something serious or relevant has happened, the writers rush to undo it before you even feel anything.
After all, I feel obligated to talk about the good too. There are a couple of emotional scenes that actually land, but they make about 10% of the whole movie. Some of them fall into that category of set-ups which lead nowhere, but they were nice moments anyway. That's the reason I'm giving this movie a 5.
The ending is the worse. It seems like a IT chapter 2 kind of ending. Not a satisfactory ending at all.
I feel so bad for it - I really wish I enjoyed this movie. I'll watch it again, now knowing what to expect, and maybe it will be better.