Painfully frantic, like watching a montage on fast forward.

Rating: 4/10 (20 December 2019)

The Rise of Skywalker felt more like a 2 and a half hour trailer than a movie. Every line of dialogue was snappy to the point of ridiculousness, and the movie made absolutely no attempts to follow the age-old guideline of showing rather than telling, opting instead to drop expository info dump after info dump, constantly disrespecting the viewer's ability to infer even the simplest pieces of information. There was no glue to ground the movie emotionally, and every scene felt more shoehorned than the last. It was as though a different person wrote each scene, with no attempts to tie them together or set up plot points in such a way that they would provide any sort of emotional impact. I left the theater not feeling sad or angry, but empty, and as a life long fan of Star Wars, that was the worst possible reaction I could have had to such a movie.