Decide for yourself.

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2019)

This is coming from someone who was disappointed by the Last Jedi. I actually liked this movie. The consensus is that this movie is terrible. It's not terrible. It's a decent movie with issues. I have two primary issues with this movie. The first is that it is very rushed. The reason for why it is rushed being us to my second primary issue, which is coherency. The Last Jedi didn't truly continue the story begun by Force Awakens and it didn't really develop the characters. As a result of this, we were left with a movie that was essentially a throw away movie. It didn't progress anything. Because of that, arch wise, there is no middle movie. Consequently, the third movie has to hurriedly develop characters and thrust you into the finale, making this movie very rushed. The trilogy lacks coherency because of this lack of a middle movie. It may as well not exist. If they ever wanted to make another second movie to the trilogy that gave a coherency to the trilogy, I wouldn't hesitate at all to watch that movie. So much of what is wrong with this last movie in the trilogy could be mended because this third movie is made in way that would suggest we had a movie before this that was not The Last Jedi. If a movie we're made to essentially replace the Last Jedi this would be a much better trilogy, for we need a movie that continues the story of Force Awakens and develops characters and gives a smooth transition into the third movie that provides context and setup for things that occur in the third movie. Go and see this movie. It has great action and all the characters are fun and likable. While many people did not like Palpitine in this, I personally thought this made the film much more interesting by having Palpatine than it would have been without him. Don't let anyone tell you can't like this movie. It's your choice to like it or not. Whichever you choose I respect it. All I ask is that you give it a chance, which is unfortunately more that what so many people who saw this movie gave it. There are a lot of people out there who are trying to bully everyone else to hate the movie and it's sad. Star Wars fans, I know for many of you this trilogy has been disappointing, but I ask that you let others enjoy it, for there are people out there who do like it and there is nothing wrong with that.