Everything a Star Wars movie should be.. and that's the problem

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2019)

I went in wanting to love this movie- I grew up with Star Wars and had the rather unpopular opinion that the last Jedi were good! I enjoyed the risks it took and changes it made, rather than repeating something from the original trilogy. When I started watching The Rise Of Skywalker, I was enjoying it! There were moments I found it predictable but thought "it should be fine, right?" Wrong. The movie soon fell into the most predictable rhythm, every moment you could see ages in advance. It was more than anything a rehash of the return of the Jedi in the worst way possible. The 3 star rating is due to the few moments I actually enjoyed the movie, but overall it was played way too safe and was so incredibly predictable.