Generous 4 from me. Another fav ruined

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2019)

It makes me sad more than anything. What was the point in this trilogy other than to make money? From the start nothing new was out their for our characters. Instead we were introduced to three new people we didn't greatly care about. Finn Rey and Poe aren't bad characters but it's was our characters who should have carried the story.
Disney always say they wanted to recruit new young fans. What about the fans who have been watching for years? Fin Rey and poe feels like a story unconnected to the skywalker saga. Maybe they should have made a Star Wars about them to attract the new fans and gave us what we wanted, a real continuation to the skywalker saga which makes Luke Han and leai the main characters still.
Minimally Luke should have been more, he was a Jedi like his father before him and this trilogy pooped over the whole story of Luke SKywalker and the balance of the force.
Spoilers ahead spoilers ahead
Spoilers

To break down the film is hard. The rise of skywalker jumps from place to place and it feels like a mess. The emperor has been in hiding for a long time. (Please note this film never reveals how he survived his fall in return of the Jedi) and had come back to retake his empire. My small issue with this on top of how he survived was why has he pre warned everyone he is back? In the crawl we learn that he sent a message out telling everyone he is back. WHY? This is so dumb it's outrageous.
Kylo wren finds the emperor and is sent on a quest to kill Rey. Kylo initially turns up to kill him but he quickly forgets that idea and goes along with the plan. However he doesn't actually want to kill Rey he wants to recruit her to kill the emperor with him and rule the galaxy. Cliche
Quick break downs
Poe is the new leader of the rebellion
Finn the most under used character keeps banging on about the force and seems force sensitive but it never really happens for him. He however can now ride on the wings for ships with space horses and blow up big planet killing Death Stars.
Leai all of a sudden has been trained in the force by Luke enough that she can teach Rey to be a Jedi. Come on seriously. Then they did the flash back of a cgi Luke and leai. Oh man what an embarresmeent. Reliving this film in my head makes me feel sick lol
All in all between all the jumping here and jumping there for Rey to find out she is a palpertine and is related to the emperor is again lame. There are times where you think chewbacca died and he didn't there is Rey using force lightning and c3po being reprogrammed but it's all just a process for Rey making it to the emperor. Even Luke skywalker small moment was runnier stating that it's the destiny of a Jedi to confront fear. Sending Rey to fight darth sideous alone.
All the whole Ben solo now decides after his vision of Han Solo that he a goodie.
By the time the final fight comes it's all crumbled and the end is no different. We finally get to meet the knights of wren who are the worst fighters in the gaxlaxy. Rey passes Ben a spare lightsaber through their connection. (All the knights go wren could have had lightsabers would have been cool)
Anyways back to the mess. Rey and Ben finally stand together with lightsabers against the emperor. However the emperor is to strong and basically starts draining them of their life force. Enough so that his cloths change and so does his face he is all of a sudden younger and stronger. Ben gets thrown down a hole and Rey crumples to the floor.
Here comes the cheese. Rey manages to call on the power of all the Jedi of future past and they all talk to her in her head and she stands and declares she is all the Jedi that ever were. Palpertine responds he is all the sith that ever were. He shoots lightning at her and she uses Luke's saber to block it and the leais saber to create a cross on the sabers. This somehow deflects the emperors blast of lightning back at him and slowly starts to disintegrate him. (Very similar to windu vs palpertine in revenge of sith, except the emperor stops killing him self in that film) well either way the emperor just dies like that.
Having killed the emperor and thinking all the cheese was done they had one more tiny bit. Rey decides it was all to much and falls down dead. Ben solo comes up out of this pit and force heals her. (Force heal is in this film allot, made for the purpose of this end)
Ben saves her by force heal they kiss and then Ben drops dead from nothing just as Rey did.
This film left a sour taste in my mouth because I feel like how could no one around the stairs board of all 3 of these films not say how awful they were.
like many franchises this year another one ruined.
RIP STAR WARS IT WAS FUN WHY IT LASTED