Sloppy and convoluted beyond belief

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 2019)

Plot is sloppy and convoluted beyond belief. Spectacle is huge but the same seen thousands times, and has almost zero emotional, or adrenaline factor, simply because it's badly built, and you couldn't care less for the characters involved. Movie is too fast, with too little development, and full of playcards characters. Force is treated like wizardry, no more, no less, and there are plenty of fantasy elements that belong to Lord of the rings realm, not Star Wars. What you get in the end is speed-of-light-fast parade of fan service scenes and -very- bad fan fiction, from a director who once again proved not have a personal vision to convey through these movies.
In my opinion, Ryan Johnson did a wonderful job with "his" The Last Jedi, and that was the direction to follow. It was a movie full of surprises, very smart emotional and exciting, visually wonderful, and permeated with a subtle meditation not only about the characters, but on the saga itself (and even its audience, to a certain extent). Rise of Skywalker is marketing product at its worst, improvised by desperate people in need to erase or rectify what the haters hated about The Last Jedi.