"Does what it has to"

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2019)

I am not a Star Wars fan so I'm reviewing this purely as a movie.
It's very clear from the opening minutes this film has an incredible number of loose ends to tie up before it even sets itself up.
This leads to huge revelations set up in previous films being answered in minutes and severely effects the story of this film: The two biggest threats the Star Wars universe has ever seen- about 20 minutes screen time for both. Continually this film sets up huge stakes and then solves them moments later giving zero emotional impact.
The action scenes are totally forgettable, the characters are incredibly flippant to everything and there's just too many instances of stupid things happening.
It does what it has to but does absaloutly nothing well and you'll forget it before the end credits.