A film that you could pick apart forever but one I ultimately had fun with

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2019)

Firstly does this episode or this trilogy live up to the original, no but was it really ever going to. Setting those expectations aside this is quite an enjoyable and fun Star Wars film that tries a couple of new concepts and throws out new ideas that I thought were really cool to watch. If you loved the dynamic between Ben Solo and Rey in the past two movies you'll love this one as it takes that further in ways that I thought were fitting for both characters. Adam driver gives the best performance in this film which is to be expected because of how fantastic of an actor he is. I thought the conclusion of the film was fitting for this trilogy and I was satisfied with the way it ended.
However there are some other concepts in this film that were silly and at times undercut the consequences of the original trilogy. This film like the force awakens is sometimes scared to pursue the original concepts this trilogy has had to offer, and decided to shove nostalgia and cheesy references to the old movies which I found to be quite annoying at times. I also found that most of the storyline covered with the resistance was boring, forgettable, and generic, and had me dying to go back and see what Rey or Ben Solo were doing. There is also an ongoing mystery that Finn has where he knows something that no one else does which gets completely forgotten about and left me wanting to know what he knew as it seemed like a big revelation. The cinematography at times was awful there was a lot of shaky cam and flashing which felt quite amateurish and had me disorientated as to what was going on, this mainly happens during the 1st act.
I came out of this film overall happy with how it ended but it is by no means perfect and I do understand how people would dislike it. However if you go into this film not wanting to hate it and actually have a good time with it you might just have yourself some fun watching this conclusion to quite an entertaining Star wars trilogy.