So many questions

Rating: 3/10 (6 June 2020)

Emperor Palpatine, what? How? He's had sex? With who? How did this come about?
There were so many questions I had throughout, I was so confused. How did Palpatine come back? How did they figure this out, and who did this?/ Exegol, if this is such a hard planet to get to then how the heck did those 1000's of Star Destroyers get there? Already I was off on tangents like who is running these ships and how do they get food? They'll be lacking some serious vitamin D. They must be sooo bored, waiting in formation for what must've been at least weeks.
And Palpatine, really? Did this franchise really not have any new ideas other than Palpatine, Vader and a rebellion resulting in stopping planets being destroyed? Haven't I seen this, at least 3 times already. They really don't branch out from their story. There are so many things wrong with bringing Palpatine back, why does no one care that he potentially has a son and that this should've been known from the beginning going back to episode 1? It makes no sense. What it seems like is the writers ran out of good ideas and thought that bringing old timers back would put a plaster over gaping wounds and plot holes. But it just revealed it more and made a mockery really. I would be surprised to find a Star Wars fan who doesn't find the idea of Palpatine hard to get on board with.
Having Lando come back was not a bad option, if you we're going to have all the others then why not?
Although the movie just flops throughout really. It doesn't build much anticipation at all throughout the desert scenes. They're on the hunt for a dagger, you knew they were going to get to Exegol anyway, but I didn't really care in the build up. Rey going all Neo in the 3rd Matrix and healing the snake was just another example of rule breaking. I guess they can just do what they want?
The remains of the Death Star was probably my favourite part of the movie. This actually felt interesting (minus the Rey succeeding in everything she touches - riding a boat in a tsunami like waters - Obviously the failures in something like Tom Hanks in Castaway would've been more realistic) Rey dealing with the allure of the dark side and a great battle with Kylo Ren. The waves and moody setting were a good backdrop to finally have some good battles. But the healing was again just too much.
R2- D2 is again relegated to nothing more than forgetful lame droid. How can it be that if you only watched this trilogy you potentially might not even know who he is. If you're going to put R2-D2 in the films, don't sideline him and treat him like a hunk of junk, do his character some justice and show respect to that absolutely vital roles he played in the originals. Obviously just repeats the common trends of how today's society treats the old.
Lastly is the Palpatine face off. He demands that she kills him for his spirit to pass into Rey. But then Rey later kills him and nothing happens? Rey killing Palpatine was pretty cool, it had a good summary of encapsulating the whole of the Jedi's. But this is overshadowed by the weird kiss between Rey and Ben? This was so out of place, even fans I've watched it with were outwardly expressing their confusion.
But hey who cares? The resistance won and thats it, right? Just like at the end of 6. Obviously if there is a resistance that overcomes and wins there is no need for a resistance anymore, they fill the void. But somehow we ended up with the resistance being out of power again come Episode 7. So no doubt, even though the resistance won, there will probably be another worse trilogy where Palpatine comes back yet again and they need to stop all the Star Destroyers, because these writers are incapable of writing new content.
Safe to say I'm done with Star Wars and they ran it into the ground. I think I'd only watch it if Taika Waititi was directing, he seems about the only one who can redeem this franchise, like he did with Thor.