All the right mixture, but an impossible task

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2020)

To start with, there wasn't one moment when watching this film where I wasn't glued to the action or the great character scenes. By the end of the film, I thought it was a great piece of entertainment. It didn't feel like the ending to the 9 film saga though.
Perhaps the main problem is that there is just to much rehashed ideas here. In the phantom menace, it wasn't a great film, but was pretty brave for going in a new direction. The new films, seem to constantly have to have nods to the original three, which is pretty limiting.
No spoilers here, but if you compare this to Avengers Endgame, that is a film where the previous Infinity war takes a lot from the mood of Empire Strikes Back, but Endgames story was so inventive. That is what you look for in a film that wraps up a longer story.
In hindsight of this trilogy, the Last Jedi really was too much of a diversion for the story, so there are no real threads that make you feel this whole trilogy was for a reason.
It will be great to see what JJ Abrams does next,