The Saga has Ended

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2019)

I was nervous going into this movie, afraid of the direction Disney would take it. At the beginning of the film, they shoved in a lot of plot points to try to set up the story. Then, while the stakes were mentioned early on, the stakes were not felt by the audience. The second half of the film allows us to start feeling those stakes. It also does a good job bringing the Saga to a close.
This is the first film of the new trilogy where each character's actions are meaningful and tie strongly with the main story line. I was surprisingly satisfied with this film. Was it a great movie? No, but it was a good ending to the main Star Wars Saga.