The chopped up stir fry !

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2020)

JJ Abrams did a good and enjoyable job on the first one so Disney must have destroyed this one, maybe it would make more sense if it was 3.5h long cut, but in this form it is just a stream of constant mess. My impression was that no location is shown for more than a minute and the plot is forced to move on and suddenly jumps. Event A happens and 5 minutes later event B happens that negates event A, rinse and repeat. Not enough to get you in the mood. Maybe you will love it if you watch it high on cocaine. I gave it 6 purely for nostalgia.
That being said it is still better than the prequels, but that is a low bar to begin with. I love the originals since I was 7, loved the 2nd installment in this new trilogy (take that overgrown kids!) - consider it the third best SW movie after the first two, Rouge one coming 4th. But for goodness sake, this one is just chaos that made me cringe at times.
It is just fantasy films for children in space. You can make your soulless adverts for toys separately later on please.