JJ did the best he could

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2019)

Given that K Kennedy had tried to trash all the male characters in The Last Jedi JJ did a great job in recovering it. I thought it was a great action adventure. As an original star wars fan, its really difficult to fully enjoy these later ones, there was great chemistry between Rey and Kylos, bringing the emperor back was a genius stroke.
The actions sequences are excellent as are the locations. There was always too many characters introduced to be developed, I'm glad that Rose, Hux and Maz roles were minimised. Overall the 3 films were too jokey, star wars is a serious science fiction series. I think that Rian really messed up the trilogy by not developing the story enough and wasted too much time in TLJ with dead ends and pointless virtue posturing making it the Phantom Menace of the series. This one will be remembered for its busy content and desperate attempt to save the series, but in any case it's a fun film and retains enough Star Wars spirit and adventure.