Rushed edit/directing, lazy writing

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2019)

Let me state firstly that I would not call myself a Star Wars fanatic. I purely watch the franchise just to be entertained by the movie as it has been generally since they restarted the franchise with Episode VII and multiple spin offs. Especially after seeing the Mandalorians. I was also one of the rare one who enjoyed The Last Jedi. I honestly didn't give a lot of thoughts about how the story should be written, as long as the story is told well and clever enough to keep me entertained. But despite my low fanaticism towards the franchise, The Rise of Skywalker manage to still fail in so many levels...
As someone pointed out here, the first 5-10 minutes of the movie I was immediately getting a really bad vibe. Its like watching a trailer of another movie where Palpatine is alive and there an odd pyramid looking artifact. Huh?! I stuck it out hoping the rushed feeling of the movie will finally subside after this, but alas it was maintained throughout. There were many scenes where it felt rushed and it jumped around; the scenes & dialogues felt rushed to fit the cut, as if the director doesn't care how to tell it well as long the viewer gets the story. Some of these scenes made me feel like I'm watching the movie at 2x the speed...
Then the amount of plotholes in the movie that just made you do a facepalm after faceplam. I don't mind one or two.. but this many?? Conveniently getting suck by a quicksand that leads to the clue, Rey controlling a starship but not a sand bike, Rey jumping like Neo but struggle to climb some structures, conveniently standing on a spot where the dagger shape fit the landscape, apparently an X wing submerged for years can still fly, easily going through the rough seas they initially suggest to be too dangerous, a Final Order starships capable of each destroying a planet but park themselves somewhere all these years and apparently can be easily shot down by a small fighters... sigh, I could go on and on
Also they decided to throw multiple new characters, who probably don't add much values..... a new useless droid, another ex-stormtrooper, another masked character. None of them play a crucial role enough and hardly any character build being thought of. They just throw them in there.. just because. They carelessly ditched some characters importance completely (Rose, Maz). Plus watching Lando in the movie feels much like having your grandpa sitting in the car with you & your friends, getting excited just because he get to hang out with the younger kids. LOL and yikes.
And what's with the last scene of Rey Skywalker? The orange lightsaber? What did Finn wanted to say to Rey? Kylo and Rey had a thing for each other? Didn't Snoke arranged Kylo & Rey crossovers in The Last Jedi, why is it still happening now? And you can pass things around using Force now? What? How? Why?! WTF!
Anyway, what a way to destroy the final trilogy...... GG