Reluctant Watch

Rating: 6/10 (1 January 2020)

I really wanted to wait on this one, but I couldn't help myself.
The biggest issue I have with the entire new trilogy definitely came to a head in this one... power creep. By that I mean the new trilogy completely dumps on all the previous movies with the absurd pushing of force powers upward. I mean are we really to believe the at best partially trained Jedi in Rey is this much stronger than the Jedi Masters of old? Please...
Then they bring back Palatine! That's pretty cool, until you realize the crippled man somehow got new powers too. Seriously though, of this guy had the power to drain the force from Jedi/Sith the first 6 movies would have been vastly different. All that scene did was create new plot holes. Which is funny, because for every plot hole this movie plugs with half baked story, it creates with that same story.
Ultimately it's a fine action movie and it's certainly better than the other 2, but it really does a disservice to the franchise. If you've seen the other 8 I guess you're locked in like I was, just go get it over with.