Pure apathy

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2019)

I never thought I would be at the point where a Star Wars movie evokes virtually no emotion from me. Whether you like The Last Jedi or not, at least it conjured a strong emotional reaction. The Rise of Skywalker is a mess of a film concluding a mess of a trilogy. There is virtually no through line between these three movies. Even the stuff JJ set up in The Force Awakens is dropped and most of what Rian Johnson set up in The Last Jedi is completely ignored. There is essentially no plot or story to this film. Things just happen without reason or explanation. The worst example of this is the massive retcon of Palpatine surviving and orchestrating everything that happens in this trilogy without any explanation of how or why.
It's hard to care about any of the characters because they've been developed so poorly. The climax is so unoriginal and predictable. The amount of fan service, if you can even call it that, to try to win back fans is pathetic. I genuinely don't know who this movie was made for because it sure as hell wasn't Star Wars fans.