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Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2019)

Really wanted to give it 6.5, its not a terrible film but 7 seems too generous given its a genuine mess...but a good-fun sort of mess. Left me feeling more like I'd watched an extended cut of Solo.
Without wanting to give too much away, if there is anyone left who's not seen it, I felt it pretty much jumped from TFA and skips the events of TLJ altogether which goes to reaffirm what a waste of space that movie was. It has the standard JJ plot-holes big enough to warp space and time, and lifted-scenes...sorry, homages, with at least 1 genuine surprise...but it suffers from a lack of cohesion across the whole trilogy that left me simply not caring what happens to anyone who appeared before, and not understanding what all these new characters were doing...because again I didn't care.
The most frustrating part is that it is possible to still make a good Star Wars movie...Rouge One is definitely my #2 of all of them, and on some days actually beats Empire. Its well written, cast, acted, directed, paced, and presented....its just such a good film om all levels in its integration into the Star Wars universe but ability to show something new and different. I am sure nobody deliberately sets out to make a bad film, but boy it seems like sometimes they don't care whether its any good do long as it meets its delivery date.
I think Disney have a real problem now; they've paid billions for this universe, but this is absolutely the last time I'll be heading to the cinema in good faith. Its stream and see for me from now on.