This is the way this Star Wars Sequel Trilogy ends....Not with a bang but a whimper

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2019)

Where do I start with Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker? I will try to summarize it in 4 main reasons and explain why this film is not good.

The pacing is terrible

It's unbelievable how badly paced this film is. The film runs so fast from scene to scene that you get the feeling that someone has pressed the fast forward button. This film doesn't try to give the viewer a break to breathe at any moment.
There were almost no quiet scenes in this film.

The plot of this film is a bad rip-off of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Rey finds out that she is Palpatine's/The Emperor's granddaughter just like Luke Skywalker found out that Darth Vader is his father in Episode V. The entire last battle is an Emperor's throne room rip-off of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and they already used the same scene in The Last Jedi! How often do you want to recycle the same scene? Don't those screenwriters have any original ideas?! They also brought the Death Star back, but this time the Star Destroyers use the Death Star weapons. How original -_-

The Return of Palpatine aka The Emperor

Bringing Palpatine back in any way shape or form is probably the worst decision they could have done as now it completely lessens or just outright makes everything that was accomplished in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi totally meaningless. In fact that's pretty much this whole New Trilogie's message in a nutshell: everything that was fought, sacrificed and died for in the previous films didn't matter. This would be like if someone made a direct follow up to Lord of the Rings Trilogy where Sauron just comes back and thereby making all the deaths and sacrifices fought to destroy him before totally meaningless.

The action is boring

There is not a single exciting lightsaber fight or space battle in this entire film.
All in all a boring film that offers zero excitement or an interesting/original plot, with characters that at this point I don't care anymore. I refuse to call this the end of the Skywalker Saga. The real end of the Skywalker Saga is the end of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.