The Skywalker saga ends with a fizzle instead of a bang.

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2019)

I'm going to preset this by saying that at least in most capacity, I have enjoyed this new trilogy quite a bit. I wasn't born for the original saga, and was barely old enough to comprehend the prequels before their end. So for all intensive purposes, this is the story and the characters I grew up. So for it to feel and end up like Last-Jedi cruise control sprinkled with a ton of nostalgia for two and a half hours is disheartening to say the least. Palpatine's alive and has been manipulating everything from the start, Snoke's one of his (many ?) clones. Do they explain how he's managed to survive this long? Nope. Luke's all of a sudden just hanging out like his sacrifice meant nothing and calling himself a fool for his TLJ actions. Nice jab at Rian there, JJ. Quite mature. Remember how scary Hux was in The Force Awakens? His epic speech before he unleashed the terror of the Starkiller base? Well, turns out he was a spy. He was just pretending to be an extremely pompous evil space general. Ray's parents were nobodies? Ha, you wish. Everything needs to be connected, she's Palpatine's granddaughter! Every single decision made in this movie, is to either backpedal on everything done in TLJ, or to jerk off the old trilogy fans who stuck around this long only to witness their original trio get dragged to hell and back in the name of character development. Meanwhile we also introduce a multitude of new characters into the fray, and still try to juggle the new-ish and old all at once. Sheesh! Shoutout John Williams and the performers trying to keep this sinking ship together, Adam baby, I'm so sorry. Imagine having one of the best arcs in the entire three trilogies just to die a virgin. Goddamn shame.