6.9 is still way too high of a rating for this movie

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2020)

How does Palpatine come back? How does he bring about an Imperial fleet seemingly out of nowhere? How on earth does Rey become so strong with the force that she is able to heal people with only a couple years of training? How was I able to sit through the most phoned-in, boring, and cliche Star Wars movie to date?? None of these questions will be answered, except for the last one, which was because I had a bag of M&Ms and a Coke slushy to comfort me during these dark times.
How are people liking this movie and thinking it's better than the last Jedi? That is also a question I can answer. It seems that people would rather see an unoriginal, rehashed, significantly worse version of the originals, instead of a new, surprising, risk-taking piece of cinema like TLJ. Obviously, TJL was far from perfect, but at least it was original and tried to add new ideas. TRS was, at its best, a missed opportunity at what could have been one of the greatest Star Wars movies of all time. Anything would've been better than what they did with the film, but had Kylo turned good and Rey turned bad, and maybe even the dark side prevails, the movie would have taken a much darker, much more interesting turn, and would have almost certainly been much better. I give it a 4 because it had good special effects, and most of the acting wasn't too terrible, but it's a film full of plot holes, nonsense, and scenes full of emotion that pander to the most easily amused. For those who did like this movie, I hate to tell you this, but your opinion on movies, especially Star Wars movies, is invalid and should never be heeded by anyone with even the slightest sense of what is good and what is not.