Fun in a vacuum

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2019)

At the end of the day, this is a fun movie that connects to the trilogies that come before it. However, this fun only exists in a vacuum where the creative vision of the 2 predecessors are completely voided and the plot is haphazardly assembled around legends, fan lore, and previously "completed" canon. The undoing of reys ancestory is almost unforgivable and seemingly lazy, especially when you consider that the films happen in quick succession of one another. Ultimately, the conclusions that are reached in the end ARE SATISFYING but the route taken to get there was deeply unsatisfying and sloppy