Felt like a Star Wars movie

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2020)

I grew up with the original trilogy, read the now non canon bantam book series as well. So I like to think I got a handle on Star Wars.
Force awakens was solid but kind of pulled to much from new hope. Hardly the first that took a story and changed names (avatar).
Last jedi left major questions unanswered and created bigger ones. Like how can leia screw up the new republic so bad that they are left with one ship. It was a flashy movie that was filled with mistakes. The only thing that could have saved it from phantom menace territory would be if luke actually showed up and really did take on the first order. He never really showed what a jedi master could do.

So rise of skywalker had a ton to fix and for the most part it does come close.
It's not going to be the original two movies. I think jedi is where they started to really hit that merchandizing stride. Even so those two movies are only perfect because of nostalgia
You can tell that leia was meant for a larger role in this and some of her scenes would have helped either force awakens or last jedi.
Emperor is a much better villain than snoke but that is more a failure on last jedi for not developing him than the emperor hitting a homerun.
There were call backs and plenty of no they're gone but wait no they aren't.
There were also plenty of the why are they doing this when there are far easier ways.

In the end though I had fun and while not new hope or empire I feel this was the best of this trilogy it was it's own thing and didn't try to over think itself. I would put it around jedi or revenge of the sith.