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Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2020)

, just got to see film in Jan in the cinema
this final part of the rebooted trilogy does rediscover a sense of adventure and maybe even a sense of wonder.
But there is something missing in this film
I gave it, 9/10 There's not just a sense of an ending with The Rise of Skywalker but also a sense of fatigue that we have seen this all before, especially in the mad dash of the closing battle. The once awe-inspiring visual flourishes and world-building spectacle have become merely quick rushes of been there done that . There is, after all, a fine line between the gravitas and profound Jedi-babble of Star Wars mythology and cornball sentiment and wooden dialogue.
So after decades of intergalactic war and bloodletting family feuding it all comes to a end with a closing scene that may even leave you with a lump in your throat the size of the Death Star. However, be warned!
JJ Abrams is back on board as director for this final chapter and there is a sense of righting the ship after The Last Jedi, a great film which went in a different way and I loved it because it tried a different way
and the rise of skywalker weighted down by its own self-importance. He mostly pulls it off with panache in a two-and-a-half hour movie bursting with spectacle, rip-roaring action scenes and maybe even a few tears with old camoes and old friends dropping in from time to time.
Scene set by that opening scroll, we are in a whole new galaxy of darkness. Forget all that talk about the First Order; now it's all about the Final Order, which just might be the evil empire to end all evil empires. Millions of light years away in an uncharted corner of the galaxy, a dark figure from the past is plotting quite a comeback...
when the film is given a chance to breath it delivers its most memorable and impactful moments with the emotional and physical moments between rey and kyko ren the glue holding them together
Meanwhile, in the rebels' secret base, Rey (Daisy Ridley) is losing faith as she completes her Jedi training under the watchful but bemused (well, it is Carrie Fisher) eye of General Leia Organa. In between aerobatic leaps and shinning up trees, Rey is also terrified by visions of her own possible future and this leads to some revelations
Sadly, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver, turning the space opera pulp into spun gold) has lost his tantrum-throwing fury and resolved his daddy issues. He is far more assured and in this movie. And his personal battles with rey are more deep and thoughtful
It certainly looks spectacular. Our brave crew of Finn, Rey, Poe, Chewie, BB-8 and C-3PO (RD-D2 has very little to do) sure get around in a race against time to locate a vital navigational tool that may foil the Final Order's plans. They go planet-hopping, fetching up on a water world with a constantly-churning sea and a desert planet, Their sojourn here does have the film's best executed scenes - a speeder chase through canyons, which is essentially a re-run of the speeder chase on Endor from Return of the Jedi, and a desert showdown between Rey and Ren which sees them locked in a battle of wills over a stormtrooper transport suspended in mid-air.
We finally get to find out why General Hux has been so very fidgety in the first two movies and I'd like to have seen more of Richard E Grant, who turns in a fantastically lip-curling performance as the truly dastardly Allegiant General Pryde. There's also a new droid by the name of D-0, who may be suffering from social anxiety
Abrams keeps up the pace in-between glances and military mumbo jumbo about weak points on Imperial star fighters, communication towers and pensive ruminations about the Dark Side.
So with rey funding her self in Exegol in the Unknown regions where her personal battle of minds and hearts gets all her powers from voices of Jedi masters all the past and present channelling generations of Jedi might into her through her if she can bring order to her family tree the final mins are emotional charged epic but lacks a heart beat