Limping to an irrelevent conclusion

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2019)

This is one of the worst films of 2019, not in regards to Production (which is as you imagine at a high level) but in regards to the expectation placed against it. A 200 million dollar budget, 40+ years of lore, a talented director and capable studio behind it - and yet this is an utter mess.
It seems a good sign when the best scenes of a film are the first scenes and the last scenes, but these are just bookmarks for a non-sensical film built around another long and unnecessary "chase the MacGuffin" that derails the film for Acts 1 and 2. There is pointless world hopping that removals all character building. The filmmakers settle for the fact that we finally have a number of the original trilogy and new trilogy characters together.
For all the hate The Last Jedi gets - at least it was brave and more importantly, general functional. That film attempts some brave things but throws substance and logic out of the window in a desperate attempt to achieve. This script, desperate to retcon TLJ, is messy and worst of all lazy. The amount of conveniences in this film can easily be counted on 2 hands. It's frequent enough that it seems to be occurring if every scene. When you can't finish a scene without a point of convenience, there is a problem. A final 3rd act tries to turn the wheels around, but it's too little too late. Despite some big action scenes, the stakes are non-existent.
A lot of the praise seems to be the film's satisfying conclusion. I disagree. This film, and more so the trilogy as a whole, adds nothing that that original 6 films didn't already wrap up. Nothing feels expanded on, nor anything feels added. It just exists.
Star Wars has limped to it's conclusion. The Mandalorian and future Star Wars TV and games will keep my general interest but after this, I more than okay with never seeing another Star Wars film again.