This is diabolical

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2019)

First off, I appreciate everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but anything above a 5 for this film is total nonsense from people who are not real star wars fans or dont appreciate/understand the basics of film making. I guess you can give it a few stars due to visuals but for me, its a zero to be honest.
Its badly rushed, poorly acted and the storyline is just beyond belief. What happens in the previous two films is totally irrelevant, so this is not a trilogy in the slightest.
The sequels have their faults, but at least they build a story around Anakin which flows into the OT. The Force Awakens had potential to carry it on from ROTJ, but the last two films have destroyed that.
There are so many things wrong with this that make no sense which keep popping into my head on reflection of the film since i watched it in London last night.
The film is so badly made and editied that scenes and storyline lines dont let the viewer have any emotion or feeling, theres no build it, its just a mish mash of different things chucked in. Its a really awfully made film with terrible acting and a diabolical script
1. Within the first 2 minutes, Palpatine is back and speaking to Kylo Ren revealing his big plan. It then quickly cuts to the Rebels who within a couple of sentences explain how hes back from the dead after 30 years "he cloned himself and sat on the edge of the galaxy, used situ magic".....where did that come from? There was not build up to this in the previous two films or even any build up in this film (its in the open storyline word sequence, which is also short and crap) so there is no shock or emotion at his come back, especially when the explanation is given by a couple of rebels within 30 seconds. It then sinks in that the ROTJ ending is total nonsense, which for any true fan is gut wrenching.
2. Leia is a Jedi master and even has a clip of her from previous years doing Jedi training with Luke? Where did that come from? Why did she die the way she did in this film? Rubbish.

3. Hux is a spy, but he doesnt want the rebels to win, he just wants Ren to fail but we dont really know why. He frees the rebels then gets killed a few mins later by his commander. Its all rushed and has no effect.
4. Palpatine wants to kind of kill Ren and vice versa, but needs him to kill Rey but Ren doesnt really want to and Palpatine doesnt really want to kill Rey either, (although most of the film is Ren trying to kill her) he wants her to take over as Sith Emporer really....or does he? Because when she refuses and Ren comes to save the day, Palpatine takes their power and becomes the true emporer again (after saying a few mins before that Rey must take over from him).....confused? Yep, a load of utter utter tripe.
6. Lando coming back, why? To fly the Falcon for a bit? All rushed so theres no emotion to it. He just kind of pops in and out of the film and says basically the same phrases as ROTJ "Hey Buddy" and "Dont let me down"
7. Various scenes dont make sense like when Chewie gets captured but the first order dont see the other Rebels are on a massive ship and all their for the taking, they just fly off with Chewie
8. Rey has no depth to her character at all. With Luke and Anakin there was depth and power and emotion, there is nothing with Rey. Shes a nobody as the two films have not built on her since TFW.
9. Whats the point of Finn in all of this? You could actually take his character out and it would make no difference or any of the plot.
10. The title and the ending. The very very end for me is diabolical. Rey is a Palpatine but at the end is asked by an old woman what her name is so she looks around, sees the ghost of Luke and Leia and says "Im Rey Skywalker".
Shes not a Skywalker though, shes a Palpatine so why does she have the right to be a Skywalker? Because shes a Jedi? Not all Jedis are Skywalkers. The end to a 40 plus year saga is just so so bad it cant get my head around it.
Theres loads more wrong with this which other reviews will show, but its just an over paced mish mash of people flying around trying to work through a disjointed plot.
Oh yea, you can now get to any part of the galaxy in about 2 seconds as well.
JJ and Disney should be utterly ashmed. Who are these clowns making this? I read an article by him a few months ago
Saying that in bringing back Palpatine they wanted to preserve the ROTJ and what it meant and stood for.......hes done the total opposite
Garbage