as a Star Wars film, this is a letdown!

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2019)

If this was a standalone SciFi movie, it wouldn't have been half bad. Sure, the story has a "straight-to-dvd" feel and some of the plot is not well thought out, but the visuals, the score and yes, even the acting is pretty good. But this isn't a random holiday movie, this is an installment of the biggest franchise in the world, Star Wars. And taking that into consideration, this movie goes from decently average, to a whole lot worse.
This is the last part of a trilogy, and yet it feels like nothing has happened yet. The characters that were introduced in the Force Awakens are still as flat three movies later. We hardly know anything about them, and due to the lack of character development I just can't get myself to care about them (compare them to the original characters, who people to this day still love). The lack of a coherent story throughout the three movies make it painfully obvious that there was no plan about an overarching story. And the idea to bring an old foe back from the dead just to kill him again is just a cheap way to get sympathy points from nostalgic fans. But one that backfired in my opinion. Not only was the "reason" iffy at best, it also ruins the entire premise of the previous six films. Disney not only made a bad series, they also tarnished the old ones.
This terrible trilogy is exactly what happens when you make a movie solely for the intent of making money, without any vision or interesest to tell a good story. I'm sure some people enjoy it, as casuals usually do when given something flashy, but hardcore fans will end up with a wounded soul from these movies. And that's a damn shame.