Patchwork of recycled ideas

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2019)

The story of this trilogy is a mess, it is a patchwork of recycled ideas which don't fit together and do not form a coherent whole. The characters are poorly developed and don't have much chemistry together. We almost feel relieved that they don't have longer dialogues, because they are so bad.
There do not seem to be any storytellers left in Hollywood who can tell an original story.
Case in point: Already in Ep. VII they recycled the plot element "The droid holds a secret message" from Ep. IV. Well, in this movie they use this plot element again, TWICE.
There were some plot-twists in Ep. IX which were not bad, but came totally out of the blue and were not developed enough.
This movie also suffers from a severe pacing issue. It feels like it is on Allegro the whole time. We are rushing from one spaceship chase to another, from one gunfight to the next. There is no time to take a breath, to enjoy the quieter moments, to let the characters interact.
Disney is going to continue milking this IP, but the magic is long gone.