THE END OF AN ERA...!

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2020)

The last film in the Skywalker trilogy is a mixed bag of satisfied moments & missed opportunities which sums up a situation where a studio sets out to make a trilogy w/o any semblance of a plan. Not to bog down this critique w/a synopsis of the film, I can only say I feel I'm in a better place here then I was w/the prequels but that's like saying you prefer hospital food over airline food. Why Kathleen Kennedy, in her years as a producer on many of Spielberg's efforts & being married to Frank Marshall (another big time producer) some things may've worn off on her as to how to run a tight ship but as evidenced by the jazz like nature of this trilogy's construction (& even in the stand alone films Rogue One & Solo which also went through their own problematic births) one has to ask, what were you thinking? Anyhoo, J.J. Abrams (who I loved what he did w/the first Star Trek film, a franchise he admits he had no affinity for) works his usual grand idea scheme (w/sloppy follow through) which according to the social media community (which is already going gaga over Colin Trevorrow's aborted episode 9 story-line) is enough for a hanging but what did they expect? The sheer weight of financial responsibility is what Disney is looking at. Even their misguided live action remake of The Lion King made money so if the bottom line is reached then the quality of the material will be forgiven.