Emotionally draining (longread, no spoilers)

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

I'm not going to advise you whether you should or should not watch it, or which reviews you should or should not trust.
Star Wars: TRS is a good-looking film with no emotional ground under it.
They try to immerse the viewer in a vivid world with a huge number of planets, races, references and nostalgia. Despite the fact that they managed to do it, SW has never been about that. It was never about vistas and action (at least the original trilogy), bur rather about concepts and emotions.
The movie feels very much detached from the previous parts, and it gives the impression that with the previous two installments they failed to establish new and interesting characters and storylines besides the Kylo - Rei thing.
The idea of a long-term conflict in itself is exhausting, and the re-emergence of even more classic characters creates a sense of incompleteness in the original films (the original trilogy). They should've just went their own way (as suggested by Ren himself).
The very idea and the plot of the film perfectly reflects the attitude of the franchise owners to the film itself and the story behind it. They are never going to stop it. Everything that happens has no real basis and no event leads to the real end of the story.
The story wasn't terrible, but it definitely contained a lot of stupid moments. Perhaps if the creators had originally had a plan and a story for all of the three films, we would have had a complete in-depth story on the way out.
As it stands now, it looks as if in the second installment, when they tried to move away from the usual plot schemes, they wrote themselves into a corner, and now they had to go back to the old and proven themes again. This mostly felt like damage control, a script that was reviewed by a committee in order to minimize the damage that has already been done (it really looks like they watched the reviews for the last two films and formed a list of key points they have to cover).
The concept of the force, even though it has never been clearly defined enough (except from the prequels stupidity), feels very different in this film. What they are trying to say is that everyone is a force user and everyone can do almost anything. They also actively use the force as an excuse for bad writing, which was, however, done before.
Many scenes in this just feel like "why not" ones. I got a better idea of the reason why it was done, judging by the reactions of the audience around me in the cinema.
The ending feels very anticlimactic and cliche. Some aspects of the film that cannot be discussed without spoilers break the motivation of the villains. The creators tried to surprise the viewer by developing more and more ridiculous things and ideas. A lot of screen time is devoted to chasing various mcguffins and it hurts it pretty badly. It would have been much better if the film had been deeper and more symbolic, but it turned out to be quite superficial and meaningless.
What was most depressing to me, however, was that the emotional finale between Kylo and Rey, their emotional connection, which was almost the only interesting storyline in the new trilogy, although it felt obvious, was shot so poorly that it almost felt like a comedy sequence.
In the end, we came to the same point where we started. Many people have suffered in a conflict that seems to be beyond stopping.
Emotions, feelings, sensations, all of these things are no longer significant. By the end of the film I felt emotionally drained to the point when even the music was unable to spark an emotion inside me. I felt like I was a part of something that never should've been created.