Rise of the Meh

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2020)

FIRST THINGS FIRST!!! why is this movie named Rise of the Skywalker? There are no Skywalkers remaining. Ray is not a Skywalker! Anyway - I really wanted to like this movie. Its not terrible but, it is not good. Some of the action scenes are pretty good and the characters are ok. My main annoyance in this movie.......... actually the entire trilogy, are the villains. In the original movies Darph Vader was epic, powerful and no one messed with him, and the Emperor was in the background so we knew he existed and knew there was a chance we might come into contact with him, which we did. In this trilogy we have Kylo-Ren who started off awesome! until he took his helmet off and we realised he looked like a foot. Then he turned into a wimp. Snoke: I was so intrigued by his character. Then in episode 8 = basically, we found out he was a testicle, wearing a suit, killed off without actually telling us anything. Then episode 9 - the emperor just kind of appears from no where with a brand new manicure and in serious need of a wash and moisturiser. No build up to him in any of the other movies apart from hearing a laugh at the end of episode 8 (probably because he just got his nails did). If we knew he existed in episode 7 we could have at least had a build up to a final showdown between Ray and the Emperor. At least it would have been a consistent background story. Anyway - the Emperor is supposed to be this all mighty, all powerful character and he is defeated by someone much weaker than him just because she is wielding a light saber. I was SOOOOOO disappointed with the ending.
If you are a die hard fan then i wouldn't recommend watching this as it was disappointing as as a mo-fo.