4 billion spend on the rights, apparently nothing left for a good scriptwriter

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2019)

There are two major things that make that movie as horrible as it is. One is structural and the other seems to be part of the current Zeitgeist. Let's start with that.
This movie exactly like the Marvel movies will repeatedly tell you: DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUS! How? By putting in silly jokes when ever they feel like it and especially in scenes that should actually have depth and seriousness to it. I thought the silliness in part 8 was a Rian Johnson thing but Abrams is no better. And it is so ironic that the movie in the rare moments where it is actually serious is good. There will be a point I would say the at beginning of the last third where you will feel that. We finally get a few meaningful scenes in a row that you can actually get emotionally invested in. But it is far far to little. Whenever Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver get scenes together, they are good. Which is due to the fact that they are the only real characters. Oscar Isaac and John Boyega are good actors but they get absolutely nothing to work with. And you can see that Boyega is bored out of his mind with his flat character and Isac just getting bad lines where he either jokes or points out things that are obvious for the viewer anyway.
Second problem is the script. It blows my mind how you spend that money on the rights and millions and millions on the production and actors but when it comes to the story you don't hire a really good scriptwriter. The story of the previous two movies where not good either but they were way more coherent than this one. Disney makes stuff up just as they want to. Telling you you have to believe it just because they say so. There are plot wholes as big as the death star in here. Nothing makes sense, they drop stuff that was established, bring up new stuff that makes no sense, don't tie up loose ends. This is a screenwriting mess.
I wanna end on a positive note. It is a good looking movie especially when it comes to looking epic and Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver are good and have good chemistry together. But even they can't rescue this mess of a movie.