Ignore the 10 and 1 ratings; it's neither that good, nor that bad

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

TROS is a decent enough entry in the SW franchise. But it is not the best by a wide margin. To the reviewers here giving this a '10'...besides making me shudder with disbelief...I would like to ask, if TROS is a 10 than what is ANH and ESB? 50?? Wake up please.
The film wraps up most of the 'big' questions and (supposedly) puts the Skywalker saga to bed. So that alone should satisfy the majority of fans. Most big-budget films these days are technically brilliant and this one is no exception, so it has that going for it, too, but it's hardly unique anymore. Those are the positives.
What I didn't like: the film is VERY fast-paced at the start and if you aren't taking notes you might miss why one character is going somewhere or what s/he is looking for. It's a bit of a mess and I wish they'd taken more time in the exposition. If you like characters that drip sarcasm and snark, Poe's your man. But dude every time you open your mouth? Shut up already. That got old fast. There are new "force" abilities exhibited in this film, never before seen, which only open new questions. If Rey can do this, why didn't Ben or Yoda or Luke ever do it? So that was troubling. There are a few moments that had me saying 'how can you possibly know that?" or "that was a lucky-as-hell guess" but this isn't the first SW film having me say that. There is a plot point here that is eerily similar to one in TFA (several characters visiting several planets trying to find something, like everyone was trying to find a map in TFA). Oh and the bad guys are planning more 'surprises' for the galaxy. Thankfully not another Death Star, but it might as well be. Not very innovative frankly.
Overall, not bad. But not great either. Were I to rank it among the SW films (11 to date), it would be middle-late, about 8th. The only ones I'd rank lower are Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and The Last Jedi.
Oh yeah. Stormtroopers still can't hit the side of a barn and the under-manned and ill-equipped Resistance win, against impossible odds, yet again (as if you couldn't guess, right?). Total shocker. Yay.