Not the Worst Star Wars but the most boring

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2019)

I've never been bored while watching a Star Wars movie. Through all the good and bad, the movies have always managed to keep me engaged. Episode 9 was the first to fail to foster any emotional investment from me in the narrative or characters. About halfway through the movie, I felt it dragging on and hoped it would just wrap up. This is not a bad or cringeworthy movie but it is terribly dull. Plenty of scenes are copy/pasted from previous adventures. The movie swarms you with a long list of new characters and locations in such a short time that it's impossible to care about any of it. The new cast suffers from awkward dialogue and lack of depth. The completion of their arcs was not emotionally compelling for me.
I would liken this movie to a flat soda. The gas has fizzled out and you don't wan't to waste it so you chug it down. It's an average movie for casual viewers at best, while failing to meet the standards of science fantasy fans.