A Royal Mess

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2019)

Imagine you made yourself some spaghetti bolognese and openned some fine wine. You're walking with it to the dining table when you suddenly stumble. The plate goes crashing into the wall and spaghetti splats everywhere. The wine seeps into the sofa and floor. You're left bleeding with shattered glass everywhere. You look up and wonder, wtf just happened? This is the perfect analogy for this movie.- it's a mess.
The story is everywhere and there is absolutely no character progression. Any sense of character progression is actually characters suddenly switching from one mindset to another, with little to no context. The story is so fast paced that there's little time to enjoy or get a sense of what's happening. I suspect it's because they're trying to fill in any plot holes and inconsistencies from the other movies. Even by the third movie, none of the characters are likeable and I couldn't care what happens to any of them. This movie is such a mish-mash of different scenes and plots that it becomes just plain boring. When we walked out of the cinema, someone said to their partner, "it's so bad, there wasn't one wow moment." Yes, I agree, there was not a single wow moment. I'm afraid every sense of nuance has been removed from the latest edition of the Star Wars saga and they try to make up for it by cramming a million special effects into every scene possible. It's like the writers had no idea how to write complex characters or characters that acted... well... human. The original Star Wars characters were based off Jung's archetypes, which were also based of stories from mythology, religion and tales. This is why Luke, Anakin and so on, held such strong ties to the viewers. There was a lot of history and literature around the making of the hero and the characters within. However, the writer, for these editions, seem to want to make their own unique tale without giving and credence to what made Star Wars popular. It has now become a shallow shell of what Star Wars was. Rey is a n unlikable Marry Sue and all the other characters are trying to forge a nostalgia bond with any of the original characters they didn't kill off. It's so sad to watch.
There was one thing that was improved upon however. I went into the movie expecting the worst, and I got what I came for.