Not the worst action movie, best of the new trilogy - yet still only avarage

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2019)

The Force is not strong - even in this one - but it is the best of the new trilogy. Funny though, this being the best makes the 2 before even worse. I am not writing here about breaking Star Wars lore. If you are a fan of lore, you may take away a star or two from the rating I gave. I have a feeling that the makers of the films just dont care bat-crap whether the movies actually follow rules set by the other SW films. Its as if they want to give sad reacts to fans. Or they just dont care. I cannot know. Its just dumb.
Compared to previous titles, Rise of Skyw. has some storyline. However, the new old villain popping out of the blue (or sith dark?) is really cheap trick to fill the fact that Last jedi and FA had no proper storyline whatsoever. Just running around and things happening wearing plot armour does not account as a story. A good story has characters - villains, heroes and in-betweens - developing and interacting each other. Thats what is the interesting stuff. Not explosions and pew-pews but the reasons "why this and that happens", and "what significance it has" and "is the psychology behind characters believable".
The new trilogy had only one character who had any sort of emotionally and otherwise satisfactory character development. Kylo Ren, that is. His character development carries the trilogy and managed to be even touching in this movie.
Im not saying other characters are trash, but they are shallow enough to resemble something picked up from a tourist beach trash can. All the other characters have no character whatsoever, though i did like Finn throughout the movies. The Hackerman who was introduced in Last Jedi does not appear in this one, which is a huge disappointment. With the few minutes of screen time he had in Last Jedi, he showed more character than Poe, Finn and Rey combined.
Questions that made me wonder:
A) in the beginning of the movie it is told that Empire Strikes back in 16 hours. This never happened. Why? Why make star destroyers wait in strategically crap position? Why not move them few kilometers up so their shields would work, or have them hidden somewhere nearby?
B) if Force ghosts can do whatever they please now, why Anakin Skywalker - the most loved jedi/Sith by Kylo - never pops up to tell Kylo that being evil is not worth it? Or Luke? He was Kylos mentor. Why would he not torment Kylo as force ghost? I mean, Luke practically promised to haunt Kylo in the Last Jedi but in the end did not.
C) the knights of Ren are showed menacingly pose throughout the movie, yet they do nothing. Bummer.
D) the first part of the movie is chasing a macguffin to get another macguffing, yet the macguffin is found miracuously rolling on the spaceship floor. Do you know what fetch quests are considered in story telling, in video games, literature and so on? Crap. Thats what they are.