This movie should have been better

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

First of all, this movie is very predictable. I can't fully explain this but I made a joke yesterday about how this movie was going to end and I was completely right. Even while I watched this movie, I figured out somethings before they happened. The pacing in this movie is so bad because as much as this pains me to say this but this movie is kind of boring to sit through. The movie never really picks up the pace and everything just feels like they had to drag it out in order to get the longer run time. As much as I think J.J. Abrams is a good director this movie wasn't his strongest and I feel like it's because he has to try and explain everything that happened in, "The Last Jedi" in this movie which caused this movie to be slightly boring. Even the action scenes weren't the greatest. I really wanted to get into the finale action scene but honestly, I just couldn't. It was such a great experience getting to see it all happen but nothing really happened to bring me into the action and put me on the edge of my seat. I will give them credit for trying but then it immediately gets resolved which is another thing that bugged me was things getting resolved so quickly. Things got resolved so quickly that there were no threats for the audience to be like how are they going to get out of this one because something would happen and resolve it. I do have to say that I love what they did with Leia in this movie due to the passing of Carrie Fisher in 2017. All of the actors in this movie did the best they could with what they were given but it wasn't everybody's best work. Really the only good things about this movie is the nostalgia and John Williams score. In the end, The Rise of Skywalker could have been better if J.J. Abrams didn't have to do damage control. I definitely will rewatch this movie for a spoiler review and to cement my feelings on it.