An honest review of Episode IX as a film in general

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2019)

For anyone who is slightly into math, in terms of quality I would describe the movie a sine curve. For instance, take the interactions between Poe and Finn. At one point you have them fussing on Endor (sorry if I am wrong but I believe the forrest planet was Endor) and you can not help but to cringe at their poorly written conversation that is in fact trying to make you laugh. At another point they are arguing on on the planet where the Death Star crashed and as Finn walks away Poe just stands there, anxiously staring into the ground with an amazing scenery of the crashed Millenium Falcon in the background. Many people who grew up with the original trilogy and already had their hopes down walking into the theatre most likely only took the negative aspects into consideration while grading the movie. But for an actuall movie grading, disregarding the positive aspects would not be fair. Characterwhise I was fairly disappointed to see the only character ever I found quite interesting be pointlessly killed off. I guess they did not think it possible, introducing this character to the rebels as a sith gone good after all they had been through. So they pulled a Darth Vader on him. The Emperor was very shallow. They made him into the typical powerfull, evil bad guy who just wants to be powerfull and evil for no motive what so ever. They never developed on Finn and Rose. After all, they were proven to just be put in place for casting diversity. Finn's biggest moment was when he had a "feeling", where I found it quite silly gambling the entire rebel fleet based on his feeling. Rey turned out to be a Palpatine and that I actually thought of as an excellent explanation for her background, justifying her critized and nearly ridiculous powers that she attained over such a short span of time. One moment of the movie however which I absolutely despiced was "all jedis vs all sith". What made it even worse was Rey holding two lightsabers crossed. At that point it just felt like MCU. In summary: The movie is fairly bad plotwhise and they should have taken way more time writting the script. What weights up he movie are the interactions between Kylo Ren and Rey, aswell as the A level sound and special effects. The overall design of the movie is top notch. Therefore I do not think the movie deserves anything more or less than 7/10. Personally I mostly watch movies 8/10 or above and would not have seen this film if it was not for the SW title.