Suffers from the last movie. A disappointment.

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2019)

Minor spoilers ahead:
As a fan of the series as a whole, I went to the theater wondering how would this new trilogy end after the terrible train wreck that was The Last Jedi. And I left wondering that everything could be better without that second episode.
I mean, yes, there's a lot of copy-pasted stuff that they brought with The Force Awakens, but it was understandable - to introduce new characters, new ideas and new villains, they needed old faces and scenarios to keep the fans thrilled.
Then, TLJ comes and throws it all away, for the sake of being a "fresh" experience. Unfortunately, it fails as a Star Wars movie and it fails as a movie itself, leaving many, many questions unanswered and even creating another ones, not to mention the giant gaps and stupid political content... but I digress.
The reason why I'm recalling these movies is because The Rise of Skywalker suffers to conclude that mess. It felt rushed, naturally, with so much going on and so much to explain. It's basically picking up mostly after TFA and only the essentials of TLJ are remembered. There are characters that shouldn't come back but they do anyway, including one with another turn of personality that can only be explained by the change of directors between the movies. And lots of fan service.
Visually stunning, hardly we will find another redeeming factor. It's, at best, a grade C movie. It manages to tie all the loose ends, some of them which I thought wouldn't even be possible, but still, not in a satisfactory way and far from being what we would've expected from the ending of such a grand story.
After all, this new trilogy was completely unnecessary. Stick to the old ones.