Everything was good except the plot and dialogue

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2019)

Acting, direction, set design etc. etc. were all good. The movie had a disappointing plot but at least it had one as opposed to TLJ being waffle for 2 hours and a half.
Pretty disappointing that interesting ideas such as Finn's background are never used.
My main issue is that this movie contradicts the previous ones including episodes 7 and 8. A non-spoiler example would be that the movie starts off with everyone aware of Palpatine even mentioning it in the opening crawl when in TFA (written and directed by the same person) the Jedi, Sith and the Force was all considered a "myth".
This new trilogy should have focused on rebuilding the Republic with Leia as well as rebuilding the Jedi Order with Luke. The prequel trilogy with all its flaws at least served a purpose of showing a republic falling from within, this trilogy serves the same purpose of defeating and rebelling against the Empire that the original trilogy had except done worse with less interesting characters.