I So Wanted To Love This One

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2020)

I really did. After the meh feeling I got from Ep. VIII, I really wanted to love what is supposed to be the final chapter in the saga; to be able to look back over the nine movies with a good feeling.
But... I didn't.
The action was cool, but there were no 'wow!' moments, and almost everything on screen had been there before.
Then, during what was supposed to be a tense scene, with Rey climbing through the wreck of the first (?) Death Star, I found myself wishing that they would make an Assasin's Creed game in that wreck - which, I admit, is weird.
Throughout the nonology, the Force is the equivalent of mana in rp games - it's something you can draw on. I'm okay with that. It works on a sci-fi level and most fans are cool with it. But when the Force starts acting alive, doing things to its own agenda, and getting all supernatural on people, it all falls flat. It would be like having a magic wand - which is purely a tool for creating and activating spells - which, of it's own volition, suddenly turn up at your work and tries and talk your boss into giving you a promotion. It would be cool, but neither your friends nor your boss would believe a word of it.
We go to Star Wars as its friend. But even we can't believe this bull. There were almost as many ghosts turn up to clean house here as there were in the final battle of Lord of the Rings.
It's just so, so sad. The writers wrote themselves into a corner and had to use magic, or 'because God decided to lend a hand' to get them out of it.
Booooo!