Awful

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2019)

This is the first movie I have watched at the cinema where I just wanted the movie to end as soon as possible. I did not enjoy it the least. It was insufferable to watch as I was eager to leave out of boredom.
I am not really a Star Wars fan even though I have seen all the movies, so the reason for why I dislike this movie has nothing to do with it ruining the franchise. I simply dislike it because it is an awful movie. It is not entertaining, at all.
The plot is awful. The story feels missing as it is pure chaos, has no structure, and is way too fast paced. It is really just a desperate attempt at avoiding plot holes to retain the little logic that barely holds it all together. None of the characters gets enough screen time to show personality. There is no build up of tension, no release, no reward. The movie is just neutral. Nothing more than a long, straight line of random action scenes strung together.
Furthermore the dialog is depressing. All the lines are nothing more than reused and stale sentences. To compensate for the movie moving along too fast, the writers also constantly have to explain what is happening through the dialog. This hinders the characters to use the dialog to show personalities, development and character arcs. This made the characters feel robotic, which also contributed in me not feeling invested in them. They could all die and I would not bat an eye. Not to mention, to compensate for the stale dialog, the writer throw in cheap and cheesy jokes and punchlines. A sad excuse of an attempt at humor, not funny but irritating.
At last the movie is also full of cliches, and the movie is completely predictable. I have actually never seen a movie before with this many obvious cliches in it. It is embarrassing, and very irritating. And I could also predict almost every key moment before it happened, down to the very details. It is sad. The good guys have plot armor and are basically immortal. Whenever they don't know what to do, are stuck, captured, close to dying, or whatever, the perfect solution is just thrown at them out of nowhere. Either it is a vision, the perfect timing, the force, or something else super convenient that just happens, and all of them make it out scratch free. Are the writers so ignorant that they don't understand that there has to be something on the line to create a little tension and excitement?
All in all, the movie, the writing, feels awfully stupid. If you have watched all the Star Wars movies up till this point and need the closure, probably just watch it. Hopefully you can suffer your way through it, and just get over with it.