Just a mess...

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2020)

I really don't know where to begin with this... I should firstly mention that there are spoilers.
Since JJ took over, the movies have been terrible. Like really terrible. I know I have to suspend disbelief in most movies, but JJ takes it to extremes. In the Force Awakens, we had a bigger Death Star destroy a whole solar system... while people watched from the surface of other planets in other solar systems!? To say it was dumb would be an understatement... such an event would take years to reach other systems, and they wouldn't be able to see it!
This movie takes it to a new level of stupidity. JJ said to his past self "hold my beer, I can do worse". We are supposed to believe that the Emperor has come back from the dead, somehow built a huge fleet of ships(manned by who?), each now fitted with a Death Star style planet destroying cannon! Not bad for a dead man eh?
Carrie Fisher was just jammed into the movie... it was painfully obvious that she was dead when this movie was made because none of her lines seem to fit into any context. It's just weird, they should have killed off Leia in the last movie. Oh they nearly did, but she turned into superwoman and flew back into the ship from the cold vacuum of space. Didn't know jedis had those powers... sigh.
Talking about jedi powers, Luke now has the ability to come back from the dead and catch a lightsabre. And Rae and Kylo Ren seem to be able to pass items to each other using the force as some sort of teleporter technology. It's all very odd, and quite dumb.
Overall the movie was a complete mess. Lots of lightsabres getting thrown away, just to be picked up again a few minutes later. It sucked, and is an insult to the original trilogy.