Mediocre and unmemorable high paced action

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2019)

The latest installment in the Star Wars saga has big shoes to fill, and maybe this responsibility is what ultimately made it so bland. The script which was ultimately so unoriginal, that lacked courage and artistic risks, and instead replaced them with incredibly complicated but meaningless story lines (bring along a genealogy expert to this film if you ever hope to make sense of the relations between all the characters), and with high paced endless action sequences more reminiscent of a Fast and Furious movie.
The characters, which in previous movies had individualism, are now completely nondescript, and physical appreaence aside, would be hard to tell apart or remember.
The film is also about an hour too long, making the action tedious rather then exciting just because of sheer screen time.
The film does deliver technically, and action sequences and effects are all done to the highest standard, with a couple of scenes standing out, though again, with no artistic ingenuity or ground breaking ideas, it's just more of the same (but done well).
So should you see it? I would recommend it if you manage expectations. This is a generic big budget franchise action movie. It contains many of the beloved themes and settings from a world you might love. It treats them well enough. It just doesn't deliver anything new or exciting or insightful, unlike the original trilogy. Knowing this, you can enjoy the movie for what it is: unmemorable action.