Vader gave this two thumbs down

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2019)

I was only 100% in after the first Star Wars movie ("Episode 4" for millenials). My ardor waned until Episode 1, but it's been downhill steadily from there. I could ask a lot of questions, starting with why did they make this movie? But we all know the answer to that, which is megabucks and if it has a ton of explosions and CGI it's probably going to make that. Curiously, the most entertaining franchise movie by far in the past 20 years was Rogue One, not a member of the Vaunted Nine, that one actually worked the way they all should. Star Wars was never high on character development, by the time we get to this I only care (remotely) for Ridley, I couldn't care anything about anyone else because I have no reason to. And no mix of CGI, funny new worlds and redone old worlds can fix that. My 14-year-old and I left at 1:20 in and never looked back. I don't care how it ended. Enjoy.