Not the worst star wars, but still not good

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2019)

The pacing of these movie was off. It was just one action scene to the next with no space to breathe.
Palpatine was forced in right at the start of the movie.... Oh OK... He's alive.... Oh so she's a palatine. Okay. Oh he's dead again. I just didnt find myself caring about either the goodies or the baddies.

The force seems to have become Harry Potter esque where it can do anything the conjurer wishes it to. Now they can force touch heal/bring back to life. That was only a rumour and something that could only be done from the dark side, and we was told it was very hard to do. We have the main character doing it on a whim now. Next, you can now transport objects across space with the force . That's new. This is after the last episode after we had 'that scene' with leia flying through space. Why can they now make lightsabres or vaders mask transport through space with the force? That doesn't make sense. We also have a scene with Rey floating with rocks around her. So they can now levitate / fly.
Somehow Palpatine was able to get thousands of huge space ships built, staff them on a hidden planet, and managed to keep it all kept secret. That's quite a feat. And for some reason, they pilot of each of these ships can't figure out how to go up without some sort of ground satilite.
My main gripe with this episode and new trilogy over all, is there is no overarching story. The prequal told the story of how and why he turned evil, and how the empire became strong through infiltrating politics.
The main trilogy was about the Rebels fighting back against the empire and Lukes journey. This trilogy didn't really have an overarching story. Villains come and go. No one really had a journey. It was just battles that I really didn't care about. Probably because I knew a saviour would come the moment after the character loses hope.
This trilogy has made me admire the prequals more. Although flawed, it had an actual story to tell. The music was much more memorable and the characters were fleshed out.