Pleasing where it doesn't matter

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2019)

As a star wars movie it didn't hit any marks that was expected of it story wise, it only manages to be a visual and scenographly pleasing, it's missing one of the core things in all good movies, built up. The story feels rushed and fast forwarded through, to often there are plotholes and where there wasn't it was scenes to damage control what damage was done by previous Star Wars movie The Last Jedi. As a result it loses many key things to make a good movie, suspens beeing one of them. Sympathy for the character is another, you can't relate to them since you haven't followed their journey in a sensible manner their reactions to events falls short, cause of the speed which in many ways distance/dehumanize them for you to understand them. As a last resort, The Rise of Skywalker tries to create emotion by using nostalgia which can be powerfull, done in a reasonable fashion, not just by throwing it in your face every time possible.
At the end, this movie is more often than rarely incomprehensible,flat, emotionless, what is a movie that doesnt tell a saga you can understand...Not Star Wars merely pictures, beautiful pictures...