Has the era of CGI Action flicks finally jumped the shark?

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2019)

Your kids will love this movie. That is what Disney probably wanted. Adults are left feeling conned.
Kids of the 80s bought a ticket to this movie hoping for a step back into the days of yore, with a glimmer of hope that the characters, plot, and the world of skywalker would feel real once more.
For this adult, all that hope was lost in the first five minutes. The plot is chaotic and accelerated to fit in scenes that sell merchandise rather than tell a story. Most of the first 45 minutes felt completely unnecessary as your brain insists that you be patient with this movie.
The destruction of all possible laws of physics are complete with Rise of Skywalker. LIghtspeed skipping in a dog fight and force sharing of personal effects have ruined the physics of any future star wars movie. The dialogue tries to be witty, but would only be funny to kids watching iCarly. The obnoxious adults bickering over the stupidest things feels toxic and sparked my inner wokeness. Are these characters really our children's role models? It comes to a hilarious climax as these idiots end up running the entire rebel army!
EVERYTHING about this move was disappointing, the pace was relentlessly chaotic until it became oppressively condescending.
The final showdown was mind numbingly stupid. Disney has completely destroyed this franchise with ever-escalating scenarios of doom: planet death star, and now every ship is a death star. What is next, mind power death star?
Palpatine returns from the dead and begs Rey to "strike him down" and then Kylo and Rey team up - sort of - to take him down because Rey is "all of the jedi" give me an effing break. Studio C nailed the finale in their spoof "Strike me down!" OMG
How did palpatine get resources to make the largest fleet of destroyers the world has ever known and keep its location secret from every single person in the universe except for the hundreds of thousands of enlisted emperial forces? Of course there is a single point of failure that is easy to exploit. Do we have to live through a recycled death star plot every single episode now???
Oh and Rey kisses Kylo... never has there been a more awkward emotional embrace than theirs. BTW you can use the force to raise the dead but sometimes the dead disappear in 5 seconds so there is no time.
Top it of with the token split second of Disney suddenly-gay propaganda as two women lock tongue in celebration... of course it was so quick it will leave you wondering if that is what you just saw... just a little gay propaganda only a little, only enough to prove that you are a bigot if you are offended in any way that your 10 year old daughter had to ask you if that really was two girls kissing.
Three stars, because your kids have already been conditioned to love this so they will likely love it.