May the farce be with you!

Rating: 5/10 (4 January 2020)

I dreamed a dream that was Star Wars since I was a young lad. 35 years later I left the cinema with cold soulless eyes as that dream was murdered in 2 hours 20 minutes of scripted garbage.
Ok so The Last JedI had pretty much killed the trilogy already, but their was still hope of salvation with one episode to go so all was not lost. That slight hope was shattered as I face palmed my way through this movie.
Face palm moments are as follows...
Kylo Ren and Rey have mental chitty chats on a regular basis, when they are not even in the same location, as well as being able to interact physically during these mental connections, yet Leia dies at the exertion of reaching out in thought to Kylo Ren with just one word.
Storm Troopers are still completely useless. Nothing learned by them at all in 8 previous episodes. They are just an inconvenience at best. They have more armour than King Arthur and it does nothing. Tactically suicidal morons.
Several failed Death Star ventures later and the Empires stilll think it's a good idea to have one power/signal source that if destroyed renders the whole fleet of new planet destroyers useless.
Horse like creatures used in a cavalry like charge on a planet destroyer!
Find Sith with the new handy Sith Finder! Plug one into your ship and it takes you right to them! Really! It was a thing!
Which brings me on to zero consequence. Get killed, no worries, Rey can force heal. Sith finder's are destroyed, no worries, Sith finder dagger has got it covered. Sith Finder dagger lost, no worries, C3P0 can sort it! Chewbacca dead, of course not, he was in the invisible ship that no one saw!
Finn is literally a stalker. He fancies Rey and thats his storyline in this movie. Rey doesn't even notice. End of storyline. No point to Finn whatsoever.
Face palm after face palm.
That said, There are some cool scenes in this movie. The fight scenes with Kylo and Rey are very good. Palpatine is as dark and menacin as ever and great to watch. The CGI of Leia given Carrier Fishers death was fantastic. The overtones of Darth Vader and past Sith are great too. Kylo Rens story arc is effective. Reys reveal as to who she realy is is also very good.
However, so much damage had been done with the first two movies it was near impossible to pull the story back with one final movie. To be fair to JJ Abrams, he did about as good a job as could be done to salvage a respectable story line that was more like a Star Wars movie with a credible overall ending, given what he had left to work with.
Sadly though, I left the cinema glad that I would never have to endure another episode again.