Made previous movies worse

Rating: 4/10 (20 December 2019)

I am a big fan, and have liked all the SW movies, but this was the first I did not.
First, it made previous movies worse. It ruined the emotional impact of Return of the Jedi and Last Jedi. The emperor dying in ROTJ and the many of the plot points of TLJ have less effect now because they were undone.
The blatant attempts to "fix" The Last Jedi plot points and appease the vocal haters were so clearly forced and inconsistent. The whiners and haters that drove the cast off social media have been enabled and we will see more hate in the future because they won.
The story was so fast paced it didn't slow down to have any emotional impact. The plot was convoluted, with so many unexplained things and unnecessary turns. The idea of the Emperor coming back make zero sense, and why another planet killing device? Many "wow" scenes from the trailers ended up being nothing but empty marketing, like "dark" Rey. Almost all of the characters has no arcs, except for Kylo.
Inspiration cannot be forced, and if the previous director/writer didn't have it, that's fine, they should have delayed the release. Instead they put the ball in JJ Abrams hands again with almost no time on the clock, and he copied plot points from previous movies (as he usually does), and hobbled together a script that made little sense.
There were certainly some moments I liked in the movie, the very last scene on Tatooine, and the passing of the light sabers was neat. But creativity can't be forced, and this one was.