Entertaining and well made but not very original

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2019)

Reminded me a lot of return of the Jedi. Having read negative reviews I can see it both ways, on the one hand the movie is problematic in that it borrows and resurrects too much from the past. It feels frankly ridiculous to still be watching the same old rebels vs empire in the same ways as before.
Of course the empire and the emperor were destroyed again, but they were utterly destroyed in Return of the Jedi too so who could say if anything in that movie will stand. Or will the writers just find it to convenient to resurrect/recycle again?
It gets an 8 because it was actually very entertaining. And I enjoyed it a lot when I started to just think of it as a standalone film inspired by Star Wars (of the 70s/80s) but not part of the original series. If you go in with this mindset I think you'll find it interesting.