Average Star Wars

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2019)

This is an example of what happens when a middle movie gets completely mis-managed. Abrams has to spend 2/3 of this movie dealing with who Rey is again. In EP7 it was hinted she was something more, then Rian Johnson decided she was a nobody, and then Abrams basically says but she is because I wanted her to be from the first place. This movie was behind the 8 ball from the start leading to a feeling of the movie being rushed and no explanation of some important plot points. For example, I still don't know how Palpatine survived they elude to cloning but his hands and body are all sorts of jacked up so that tells me the guy we see is the one who is thrown down the shaft in the OG trilogy. At one point in the movie Finn says he has something to tell Rey... then he never says in the movie what he was going to tell Rey! There's more points, but it's not worth getting to in the weeds. I honestly feel this movie's issues were created by the massive failures of EP8 than just bad story writing it was too much movie shoved in to the time frame.