Hard to rate it on its own

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2019)

All in all, I consider TRoS nothing short of a miracle. They had to squish two movies in one, as Johnson decided to make TLJ more of a standalone movie than the middle chapter of the trilogy and the penultimate of a saga.
TLJ did nothing for character or plot development and only caused trouble by ruining every possible lead TFA left behind, including killing the villain and the main mentor just for "subverted expectations" sake. Plus Carrie Fisher's death further complicated the script.
I can't help but wonder just how much better this whole thing could have been. I don't think TFA was the best Star Wars movie ever, but it certainly entertained and felt like a faster paced Star Wars, with its main sin being that it felt too much like Star Wars. But it set really interesting characters, specially Finn and Kylo, and set all sorts of mysteries that could (and should) have been explored in 8. But they were not.
Considering all it had to deal with, TRoS manages to make a decent movie and save the trilogy somewhat, but at the same time falls really short of delivering a better ending to the saga, letting us wondering if the new trilogy was needed at all. Scratch that: I think we can all agree that it was not.