It's a bad movie.

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2019)

Usually a movie has a story to tell. This one felt like going through the motions of film making as a cash grab assured not to offend the easily offended or get passed the Chinese film censors. It's not completely irredeemable since there's good acting and millions worth of production budget, hence why not 1 star. It really solidifies linking star wars with a personality flaw of low brow mindless consumption that makes it a shameable offense to be any where in it's fan structure.
Ren's transformation feels rushed for time and his death cannot be explained beyond "movie magic" since he died for the production companies idea of wrapping up their film. That's a microcosm of a macrocosm that's somewhat telling since its setting a new benchmark of what makes a bad movie bad when you have to ask yourself "what did this character die from?" and the answer youre left with is the movie executives needed him to die. That's not consistent with a solid storyline or any type of world building consistency.
It just all feels like a hijacking of a franchise and a blatant cash grab appealing to the absolute lowest common denominator.Really had an underlying insidious feel to it all like a santa in the city of lost children vibe where something uncanny or unsettling is masquerading as something its discovered you might show fondness to for an ulterior agenda "but you just cant put your finger on what that is"(I can).
Im sure George Lucas has laughed all the way to the bank several times now and Imagine disney sitting there like a defeated emperor palpatine raging over their toy sales while the final scene of this film of the emperors ships falling from the "sky" is some kind of an analogy to the collapse of civilization as we know it. And Fin you've finished the 8 part sequel that is STAR WARS. you played yourself, son. It's safe to go home and die now.