Didn't Hate It; Didn't Love It

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2019)

There has just been something wrong with the pacing of these movies. It almost feels like they are trying to get out everything that they possibly can before the audience loses interest. This film spends so much time answering the many questions that were logically set up to be explored in the second film. Unfortunately, due to the different visions that inevitably exist when you employ a different director for the second film, you essentially wind up with a frantic third act in which the original director must budget a considerable portion of the script addressing those issues without leaving any room for the audience to breathe from one scene to another in order to push the story to its finale. Overall, the story provided closure to this third trilogy in the Palpatine/Skywalker saga. However, it just does not leave me with that feel of a trilogy that I will want to return to like the original. Who knows, though, maybe time will soften my resolve on this stance as it did on episodes 1-3 and their cringey scripting.