The best movie in an utterly pointless trilogy

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2019)

On the positive side, the movie is decently shot and edited, the CGI mostly OK (except one horrible shot), the music is very good (much better than the previous instalments in that trilogy), there are a lot of different landscapes, aliens etc., and the acting ranges from the decent to the very good (Ian McDarmid, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, and of course a fourth actor who is just there for a cameo and will remain unnamed here, to keep this review spoiler free).
On the negative side: the frantic pace typical of JJ, the total lack of invention (as in, we are bringing something new to the franchise, or movie making!).
All in all, this movie is a pure product of JJ and of a modern big studio: try and make money by copying relentlessly what others have done before in a better way, and hope the audience follows. To be fair, I think it's JJ's best movie yet. Sometimes, you even vaguely feel the human beings who have made the movie do have a soul, or at least feelings. Ho well...