Sorry Mom, Star Wars is dead...

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2019)

One of my earliest happy memories in life is going to see The Empire Strikes Back with my mom. I remember how utterly fascinated I was with the experience, magical. Years later when I was old enough to understand what was going on in the Original Trilogy I knew I was a lifelong Star Wars fan.
Every single movie that came out later, even the Phantom Menace reminded me of the magic of that 1st movie going experience, some of the magic was still intact. Up until this movie...
It is an excel sheet masquerading as a movie. A struggle between jj abrams vs rian johnson. Like a tug of war is how I'd describe this new trilogy. As much as I hated some choices Rian made in the previous movie, I almost wish he was at the helm on this one so at least one vision got realized.
What happened is the damn rope breaks due to all this course correcting. Other reviewers have gone into painstaking detail about the issues so I won't go into them but most are true.
Today I simply mourn because The Force is gone, the magic is gone, the story is gone, our Jedis are now truly extinct. At least I still have that distant memory of the 1st ever movie I went to see in my life where Star Wars really did take me to a Galaxy far, far away...