Excellent action - adventure movie, enjoayble visual effects and sound, good story

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2019)

I watched this movie just before Christmas at 23 December. It was the 3D version. I had been able to avoid watching any spoilers before the movie so I didn't know anything about it, other than short glimpses of the official trailer. I saw some news that people were hating the movie. That didn't discourage me much, because I trusted it will be great and I wanted to enjoy it for the price of the movie ticket (15 euros). I was able to walk into the movie theater with empty mind without much expectation, with great excitement about ending of Star Wars saga.
I have watched all Star Wars movies from the beginning, starting at when I was a kid. I grew up with these movies influencing me and my understanding of the world. You could say the first movies were extremely epic experiences for me and I watched them so many times.
These days the Star Wars movies are no longer epic emotionally like that, but they can be very pleasing to the eyes and ears. The Episodes 1-3 in the series were something that I never care about. 7-9 have been better ones from the new movies. They have high quality "graphics", you could say.
Immediately when Rise of Skywalker started, I noticed that it was high quality production, with excellent visuals, excellent sound.
But it was paced a little too fast, at least in the beginning. Most scenes could last only 10 - 20 seconds or so it felt, and it was little difficult to follow.
When the movie progressed, the story started unfolding a bit more calmly. Still I cannot remember much of the story now after a week has passed since the movie. If I really try, I can see how it went.
It built a decent tension between the main characters , which is interesting.
And it allowed us to discover something relatable in each character. It is heartwarming to notice you actually feel like you care for them.
Some of the scenes were emotionally touching and well acted, which is important in a movie.
I think the story culminated quite well, although this movie seemed to contain so much in the shortest time, which left some scenes feeling out of place a bit.
It is 7 because excellent production quality and well built dramatic tension.
It could be 8 or 9 if the film structure was built in a way that would focus more specifically on certain character path and the characters were more "bad ass"
Of course I recommend it and it is better Star Wars movie from the 7-9 series.