A movie without a single redeeming quality

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2020)

Wow, I can't even believe I'm writing this. I didn't expect much after Episode 8, but I held out some small hope Disney would course correct and deliver a somewhat watchable movie like Rogue One. If anything, I would enjoy Ian McDiarmid hamming it up. But there was truly not one good aspect about this film.
Immediately the lighting and camera work caught my attention. After the beautifully shot Episode 8, this film looked absolutely terrible. Shots were extremely poorly lit and framed. This isn't a question of taste. How can this happen in a 200 million dollar production? Compare any still image to one from EP8 or Rogue One or the originals and you will be shocked.
Secondly, the music was the weakest star wars score yet.
The acting was terrible and uninspired. Not even Ian McDiarmid seemed to enjoy himself.
The pacing is disastrous. The movie moves at breakneck speed from one fetch quest to the next, but there's little to no plot. Character development? What is that? Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver wear the same vapid facial expression the entire movie.
Even the action scenes were poorly staged. Comparing the gigantic final battle with the one from Avengers, this was purely chaotic and you had no idea what was going on. The fight choreography was bad as well. John Wick it ain't...
The less is said about the writing, the better. This is the 4th star wars movie with a planet destroying superlaser. What idiot greenlit this?
Worst of all: the finale takes place on a planet with constant lightning. Basically the last 20 minutes are like looking into a strobe light. The movie came with an epilepsy warning. It was almost unwatchable towards the end.
Never in my life did I expect a Star Wars movie could be this bad. Even the Holiday Special is better than this.