Honest review with spoilers and relief it's over with....

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2019)

I debated on whether or not I should make a review about this movie because of the gravity of it but I felt obligated to since I gave The Last Jedi such a bad review. Before seeing Rise of Skywalker I must admit I did a lot of spoiler reading and went into the movie pretty upset and after seeing it I walked out not necessarily upset but glad that it's OVER WITH. I was never against a new Star Wars trilogy but I truly believe disney saw nothing but dollar signs and made their own version of Star Wars and as someone who grew up and still claiming episodes 4-6 are some of the greatest movies that were ever created episodes 7-9 completely missed that mark. Now I will say that rise of Skywalker was much better than the last Jedi but jj abrams and Disney still screwed up. Since it was announced that Palpatine would return I became very skeptical because I didn't want anything to take away from anakins story arc or what happened in ROTJ. Well, what I feared actually came true!
Spoilers!
I like that we finally get to see the Sith temple but there still is no explanation to why Snoke was created or who he really is. I really liked that Rey and Kylo Rens connection and relationship became full circle but using the force to heal wounds and bring someone back to life was too much. The use of the force in this movie was just too much of an exaggeration. The reveal that Rey is Palpatines grand daughter made me question why go this direction when Palpatine never revealed any personal history or mentioned anything about having his own family.
For what really bothered me! So Palpatine has been pulling the strings since episode 1 and now 25 years after ROTJ he's alive building hundreds of Star destroyers aka mini Death Stars and no one knows anything about him or these Star destroyers being built!? Yet in this movie they all become revealed and then get destroyed in a matter of minutes lol. To me this was just extremely lazy writing.
George Lucas should have never of sold the rights of Star Wars away to Disney because Disney did the Disney thing and they tried really hard to make us hardcore fans like it with throwing nostalgia in it and Easter eggs from previous prequels but failed to really capture what Star Wars is once again.