A great ending to a saga!

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2019)

I actually really liked this one. I thought TFA was mediocre and I hated TLJ but I loved this one.
Rey actually became a better character. Because of the reveal I now understand why she is so powerful and I accept it. I do not accept her not needing training tho. That I do not forgive. I also like that she goes through some development in this one. She can't connect with the Jedi, can't defeat Ben etc. But she learns. At the end she connects with all Jedi that has ever lived ultimately making her learn something. Also when we heard all the Jedi vices it was pretty awesome.
Kylo is the best character in this trilogy. I like that he is more powerful than Rey in this one. It makes him more intimidating and it makes him a bigger threat, this of always a good thing for this kind of villain. The beautiful moment when Leia dies and reaching out to her son got me man, seeing Ben drop his lightsaber and actually feeling something. It's in this moment he realizes how wrong and bad he's been. He wants so change and is given this chance by Rey. He then saves her life at the end. He does a good thing. The kiss is a beautiful moment as they have been building up this relationship for 2 movies and now they are sitting there finally together, which makes it more sad when Ben dies. I actually think Rey should have died too thus ending the Jedi. It would have been a great ending for this franchise. So that's a missed opportunity. All in all Ben has had the best arch out of all the characters from the new trilogy and it is completed in a beautiful way in this film.
Palpatine is awesome, he's intimidating, cool and so on. When he shot up those lightning strikes it was pretty badass. He is once again, a great villain. One problem I had with him is that I think he died way too easily, I would've preferred a better death, an epic lightsaber battle perhaps?
The visuals are amazing, the film looks incredible with great use of color and contrasts, and it explores new places in the SW universe.
Some things I didn't like was that it's not explained how Palpatine survived. A friend of mine who hated the film asked "How did they bring back Palpatine when he was electrocuted by his own lighthings, fell into a 100 metres shaft and got blasted by the explosion of the death star?" And if he is reading this, which he probably will, I can't answer that question, perhaps I could answer "The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some considered to be unnatural"? That's the only thing I can explain it with. A problem here is that the writers can just say he survived because of dark side abilities when they've just been lazy. That's one problem with the movie.
The humor is bland too, I'm not a fan of Star Wars having this Marvel like humor to be honest. It works better in Marvel because that's a franchise about adults dressed in Halloween costumes, and since the concept is more silly the jokes works better. Star Wars is not as silly although it's about space wizards with laser swords, thus the jokes doesn't work as well, although to be honest a lot of the mcu jokes are cringy and unfunny too. C-3PO is funny, as he is most of the time. But that's about it, the rest of the humor is forgettable.
Overall I'd say it ranks #5 on the Star Wars from worst to best ranking. I loved this one, it's a great film.
My final rating for Rise of Skywalker is 7.3/10.