A Saga ends

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2019)

A saga ends... for now! Star Wars followed me since my kindergarten time and thus almost my whole life. It became a part of me and has remained so. For this reason, going to the cinema was one with mixed feelings.
It is generally difficult to write a review and compare this one (and the other two from Disney) with the old Star Wars movies. I decided for myself that I can't evaluate the three new movies with the same standard, because the first 6 episodes, for me, are in a different league. Episode 7 was a good start (even though there was a lot of copy & paste from the previous trilogies - which didn't bother me, because Star Wars just did). Episode 8 was unfortunately a disaster after Rian Johnson symbolically gave all Star Wars fans the middle finger. It was almost impossible to achieve a satisfying ending in episode 9.
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Film
J. J. Abrams has tried his best to do this and has, in my opinion, also achieved a satisfactory end. For this it went "back to the roots" again and the whole movie felt like a "best of" or rather a medley of all the important characters and formative moments of the Star Wars story. Ergo Episode 9 became a fan movie.
The start was fast and until the break they tried to put a lot of story into the movie. For this reason I was very challenged as a viewer by the constantly changing actions and jumps. The story with Kylo and Palpatine could have been explained in more detail, as it was actually planned. Some more scenes could have been given more time to unfold, in order to enjoy them more. 30 minutes or 1 hour longer or even a second part of the 9th episode, with the same author and a red thread, surely wouldn't have hurt.
The music of the film was outstanding again. In the right places it triggered goose bumps again. Some shots in this movie reminded of the old movies and were simply epic. I was taken back to my youth. Friends of lightsaber fights also got their money's worth, which I personally liked a lot.
Classification in Trilogy
If I look at the episode in the context of the trilogy, the 9th episode is only the continuation of the 7th episode. Episode 8 unfortunately doesn't fit in and if you leave it out you wouldn't miss much story-wise.
All in all I'm satisfied with the end d'accord and also satisfied. I liked the movie with the premise that the best was still brought out.