Disney Copy & Paste Remake instead of a sequel.

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2019)

I fear that I am a tad bit older than the target audience of this movie. This may give me a different perspective to this than the average movie goer. For example, when the film started and the texts scrolled on the screen to reveal the plot of the movie, I was laughing out loud as I found it parallel to one in Spaceballs, which is actually a rather good movie. This was not. A slightly below average action Jackson without any original content of any interest.
Having said that, did anyone else feel they were watching a mash-up of the original Star Wars Trilogy? Just a few key things from the Episode VI
Kylo Ren redemption = Darth Vader?
Emperor Palpatine as the final boss in Episode VI in a pretty much the same kind of battle scene that the main hero is forced to watch?
Kylo Ren trying to convince Rey to dark side in order to kill the Emperor?
Hoverbike chase?
Might of technology fails against things like crossbows and ... mounted cavalry.
Flight inside a structure while chased by Tie Fighters?
Then there were of course a few golden oldies like:
Another desert planet where key information is found and then inside a droid that has to be taken somewhere to see the data.
Prisoner rescue inside Star Destroyer and subsequent escape from the place.
Not to mention a few leaps of faith regarding Logic.
10 000 star destroyers built on one planet that apparently is in ruins and has no resources, population to man the ships and no production place. Sure.
Emperor seems to lift these up to the air with force, being weakened clone of his former self. Yup.
The new star destroyers each have a giant penis gun under their belly that can destroy planets. This was one of the times I could hardly stay in my seat for laughing so much.
Dead Jedis have the power to lift up x-wings. Fine.
Hyperdrive now instantly jumps to different location (Remember the good old days when trip to Alderaan actually took time) with Tie Fighters with same capability. Yes, technology apparently has improved quite a lot. Except for any other parts in the era.
Kylo Ren and Leia have their bodies disintegrate (remember how Vader had to be burned after death).
You can apparently teleport from a planet about to be disintegrated when you have given the only available ticket off planet away.
Disintegrated Death Star (Ep VI) leaves a hulk on a the planet formerly known as the Forest Moon of Endor.
The list could be almost endless.
One of the odd things was that Finn's apparent love for Rey never got fulfilled. Kylo Ren Instead gets the kiss - as expected. The audience was provided a possible race appropriate love interest for him as Hollywood apparently is not ready for interracial relationship on a major movie in 2019.
All in all, this was a visually stunning compilation of remade scenes and special effects. Directing and editing had lost something called plot in the process. Sometimes as a viewer I got completely lost when screen cut to the next scene.
Acting was pretty decent, but not that great. None of these characters have the charisma that Han Solo had. This movies is something that the world could have lived without. If you want to see a good sci-fi movie / serie, go watch Guardians of the Galaxy - movies and/or The Expanse / Farscape / Babylon 5 - series instead of this.