Beautiful yet misguided

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2020)

This movie really is a treat for the eyes. It builds upon the world if it's 2 predecessors and really starts to flesh out the characters of Rey, Kylo and Po. While the extension in character is much appreciated, it's coming in too late in the trilogy and ends up leaving more questions than answers.
The biggest problem with this film is how it and the rest of it's trilogy undoes the conclusion of Return of the Jedi. The ultimate message of that film was that the pinnacle of utilising the force was being able to find peace between both the dark-side and the light-side and how realistically they aren't so different. This movie scrubs over that and puts both sides of the force back into black and white, good and evil roles.
If they had started the trilogy with this high standard it might have been something truly great, but shall now serve as a shining example of wasted potential.