Great end to the best trilogy in the franchise

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2020)

Like Force Awakens, this is pure pulp trash, with flashy camerawork, flashy special effects, 4th wall breaking humour and lashings of fan service. Silly and contrived plot, odd moments when the writers troll us with apparent character demise, only to undo it moments later. And, yet again, the most hilarious disregard for the laws of physics. But it was ever thus. The entire franchise is ridiculous from start to finish. Not a bit of it makes any logical sense whatsoever. Even the original trilogy's story arc felt like that game where you write part of a story on a piece of paper, fold it over and hand it to the next person. The prequel trilogy less so... but that's levels of awfulness below everything else, so hardly a redeeming feature. Shame Rose was relegated to a side character though... I think that's the only disappointing bit of the movie. Otherwise, a great send off. Now let's hope someone goes back and re-makes the prequels. And maybe the original trilo- oops... too far?