The demise of Skywalker

Rating: 4/10 (20 December 2019)

Went to watch this with a complete open mind as I was so disappointed with the last film and left the theatre feeling cold and betrayed!!!
The franchise has taken a huge battering, I grew up with the Star Wars universe and loved the fairytale element of the original trilogy. The characters were warm and you felt every bit of their struggle.
The current trilogy though the characters are so non relatable, I struggle to get anything from Rey as she doesn't have any nice character traits, Poe is just a wannabe Han Solo with no charm or charisma and Finn hardly even features in this film but is genuinely the only one who comes across as emotional.
I have never understood Kylo Ren he just sulks his way from scene to scene and has 0 menace factor as he is supposed to be the franchise's answer to Vader.
This film looks as though it's finally going somewhere in the first 5 mins but then goes completely left field and introduces Palpatine straight away!!! They hyped him up in all the trailers and then introduce him within 5 mins!!! That's like showing Jaws or King Kong at the start of their movies and expecting great things.
We don't know why he's there or how he survived he's just there with white eyes!!!
The plot is just ridiculous it's all over the place Poe lightspeed hops through space and ends up being chased by ties through different locations like it's a video game.
They then have to find a way finder which is basically a sat nav that takes them to Palpatine, various characters like C3PO are just used to try and make the story more "original trilogy" and then loads of old characters such as Han, Luke, Leila and Lando just sandwiched in to appease the Star Wars fan clubs with no thought to why they are in there!! Even Ewoks and cloud city make an appearance!!
The main "twist" was dropped in empire strikes back and wasn't original and the only question left was if Rey is the Emporers grand daughter who in the blazes are her parents??
Completely disappointed, thank god I grew up through the original 3 films and have happy memories of reenacting simple storylines like the cantina scene with Greedo, walrus man snaggletooth and main characters, As if I grew up with my toys now and this was my trilogy they would be 100% gathering dust under the staircase