Finished not completely satisfied

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2019)

I agree with bravos-75370 and jamescoghlan. The worst stars wars was phantom menace with jar jar and the jokes, and disappearance of darth maul.
Star Wars did have a very high standard for iV V VI which was never touched by the other movies, in my opinion, Star Wars VII came close but Star Wars I was spoilt and Star Wars III DONT let your kids see it, my kids cried when Darth Vader emerged, killing all the children.
I don't understand how reviews say there is no story. The story is clear, beginning middle and end. There is some wooden acting in places and some of the effects took over the story.
I enjoyed the movie as it had action all the way through. Dark side was defeated by using the force from all the past Jedis and everyone was happy, even the ewoks.
The issue is people listened to the build up of hype and was expecting an epic finally, like avengers endgame or a great movie like infinity war.
Star Wars V had the epic moment "I am your father" which shocked many people but Rey's reveal was not as epic as we don't feel for Emperor palpatine.
Carrier Fisher, Adam Driver, Richard E Grant where great, even Harrison Ford.
I do feel the dialogue could have been better "what's happening" "it's people" was corny.
Give JJ Abrams credit he tried to finish off the movie and complete, most if not all the questions that everyone wanted answered.
There have been terrible films this year, but you can't rate the film lower than The Emoji Movie (2017) or Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966).