Could have been worse

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2020)

I hated The Rise of Skywalker. However, I don't think it's fair to rate it worse than 6, maybe 5/10.
Setting aside that Episode IX kinda ruined Anakin Skywalker's whole arc along with the first 6 Star Wars movies through the return of the Emperor, it's still a somewhat enjoyable movie. It's still Star Wars. The music, the great sound design, lightsabers, the force and even the characters are still kinda good.
In addition to that, I must say that I hated The Last Jedi a little bit more than this and JJ Abrahams does a good job smoothing out the mistakes of Rian Johnson. Everything from Episode VIII was basically completely erased. If you liked Episode VIII, that's terrible, if not (like me), it's great. That's why I think that Disney should have had a plan for the trilogy. Just letting seperate people write every episode without ANY plan was a horrible plan.
And TRoS is the result of that horrible plan: JJ Abrahams had the impossible job of saving the sequel trilogy and he did his best. Bringing back the Emperor was a desperate thing to do but Rian Johnson killed Snoke off, so what was JJ supposed to do? Bring him back? Make a movie without a villain?
Having said that, I'd generally give it a 6/10. But rating it inside the Star Wars franchise, it's a 4/10 tops.