Satisfying, It Must be. With Us, the Force Should be. There is No Try.

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2019)

Pros:

Loving the action sequences, most of the scenes are as intense as they would get. You would see that most of the actions here focus to entertain and to elicit highlight moments in the movie.

The acting here is well-crafted by the actors. Daisy Ridley is exceptionally good as Rey, she oozes strong affection feeling and her poignant gestures render her character a good three-dimensional development. Not to miss out Adam Driver as Kylo Ren. Though not as great as Ridley, but he fairly treats Ren redeemable of the character's good inherent qualities, trying to preserve what was left out in The Force Awakens and regains the character's strength of the damaging curve of The Last Jedi.

Great fan-service for the final film of the trilogy. Many previous films' characters appear mostly to give out a new hope to the Resistance. Excessively not, the amount here is acceptable enough to make the fans happy and not annoy others.

JJ Abrams knows extensively the appropriate time to which every character should appear. Rey and Ren steal most of the screen time. Finn and Poe always stick together as bromance partner. BB8 has more spotlight than R2D2 for driven story effect. One thing that I salute is that JJ Abrams throws Rose Tico out of the window for good. The Asian character who first surfaced in The Last Jedi was the character that did not move the story forward at all. She just further dragged the story for no reason. In this film, she plays a minor, a reindeer to Leia which is a great thing.

Powerful line of tracks playing out in the background. John Williams finds his true potential to give this final story an epic feeling.

The Rise of Skywalker answers some of the questions the fans have been longing all year long. Rey's lineage, Luke's whereabout, Snoke's origin and etc.

Cons:

The plot lays out in very thin threads, the focus here is to entertain the audience with a racing game of cat-and-mouse. What's worse is it is derivative from the action/adventure video games. It plays out a like a Playstation story mode, where an avatar needs to find a missing object at a location before going onto the next level by finding another lost item before venturing into a mission that seems forever.

The biggest problem with The Last Jedi is its awkward and ill-placed comedy. The Rise of Skywalker has moved on so good from Rian Johnson's cringey not-worth-it laughter. However, as the run time goes along, the out-of-place comedy resurfaces and it get worse and worse. By the final battle, it contagiously affects an awkward direction to the whole plot as well, no longer to the comedy aspect alone.

Albeit answers are spoken out, some of the other questions have yet to be revealed. Rey's lightsaber, final battle, Rey's skills and etc.

There are problems with the editing, the exhilarating action scenes are layered down by dreadful cinematography. The camera fails to capture focal points of scenes resulting in the death of tre cinematic experience.

The Rise of Skywalker loses its grip to find the light side of previous trilogies' atmosphere which is the fundamental reason people go into the cinemas to catch this beloved franchise. The lack of the Star Wars' atmosphere makes The Rise of Skywalker an effortless attempt for one last ride.

Verdict: The Rise of Skywalker proves that it is a satisfying conclusion to the third trilogy of the Star Wars Saga but that's only it, its lackadaisical effort to drive more approach to good storytelling and powerful emotional moments place this film in the midst of the light and dark sides.