It's Rushed, Chaotic but Good in Context

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2019)

It the context of the entire Star Wars collection, having watched them all in order from episode 1 with my 8 year old the past couple weeks my first impression is that it is really enjoyable. It does feel rushed, and properly done this movie would have been 3-3.5 hours long.
However the story of becoming a Jedi has already been told, so they left much of it out and leaves the audience longing for more character development.
There was a valiant effort to clean up the garbage from the last movie, but this too felt rushed. So they slammed together all of the action scenes to close all the plot lines. But the action scenes are well done, as are the visuals and the new worlds we are introduced to.
The story in context of the other 8 is well done, but this movie does not stand on its own, you need all of the context from the entire series to enjoy this movie, and in this regard it plays very well to a nostalgic crowd.
It was rushed and chaotic, but I really enjoyed it (in context)