An Unfortunate Waste of a Movie Night

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2019)

As another supposed installment, it barely serves its purpose. It would be ridiculous to deem this one of the greatest in the franchise, much less a good film. The hyperactive pacing does no justice for its cookie-cutter characters lacking substantial development. In all honesty, George Lucas' questionable writing never incited this amount of frustration. This corporate mess of a Disney flick is the embodiment of a deus ex machina. Viewing Episode IX, I didn't feel immersed and instead became distracted by how unbelievably preposterous it was, desperate to grasp my attention with flashy visuals and overdone fan service. If I were to cherry pick the decent elements beneath this film's seemingly-acquisitive inconsistency, the droids were the life of my party.