Un-fun and rather unnecessary.

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2020)

I went to see this new Star Wars movie tonight--a few weeks after it opened to tepid reviews. Well, after seeing it I can understand some of the lack of enthusiasm for "The Rise of Skywalker", as it suffers from a HUGE problem...I felt pretty much indifferent to it. I would have preferred it if the movie has really sucked...then I would have had fun laughing at it.
I won't recount the plot here...mostly because the film was non-stop and most plot elements lasted mere minutes. The folks went from one deadly fight to another to another to another...and much of the first portion of the film turned out to be unnecessary.
I am NOT a 'Comicbook Guy' who complains that the film isn't true to the original three or other such nonsense. I have gone to all the films and enjoyed them (with the exception of "Episode 3"...but few enjoyed that movie)...and I really enjoyed some of the more recent ones. But I disliked much of "Episode IX" because it seems like J.J. Abrams is trying to undo so much of what Rian Johnson did in "Episode VIII". Sad...but I liked "Episode VIII". Instead of relationships and characters, "Episode IX" is pretty much only about explosions, near misses and more explosions....as well as long dead characters suddenly coming back to life for no good reason.
All in all, a joyless mass of explosions and a film I should have just skipped. The theater also was showing "Knives Out" (By Johnson) and that film was FUN. "Star Wars: Episode IX" is simply un-fun.