Disaster!

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2019)

Disney's arrogance and lazy handling of this movie (trilogy) - as if simply buying the rights to Star Wars would guarantee George Lucas' genius - is extremely arrogant & disappointing.
The movie in a rush to be relevant, completely undoes the first 6 episodes and renders episode 7-8 pointless. All powerful Rey (Palpatine's granddaughter) comes along and simply destroys the emporer by holding up 2 lightsabers... That's it, dead. Something master Yoda, mace windu, all the most powerful Jedi before her couldn't do, even without having the force energy sucked out of them. It completely cheapens his power and undoes all the deep story telling about the characters you love/loathe from before. The hero is only as good as the villian he fights.
What happened to Anakin being the chosen one? No, that doesn't matter. You see, the emporer's daughter comes along and is actually the chosen one to bring balance to the force because Disney needs to milk the Star Wars teet for a little more money. They tried to have an Avengers endgane moment with all the Jedi from before showing up to help her, but it was so poorly executed and such a missed opportunity. At the very least they should've done cameos by all, but opted to simply whisper in her ear and now she's all powerful. Yikes! These movies should not have been made.
There are more plot holes in this movie than plot. How in the heck did the emporer come back to life? He only mentions it in episode 3 but how did he do it? Who's to say he's really dead this time either? According to this movie's own plot, we can assume that he's still alive waiting for the time Disney needs a little more cash again, so basically the climatic conclusion can't even be enjoyed. How did he build an army of star destroyers, 10,000 larger than the army he could before with the full might and resources of the empire and Darth Vader backing him? Who built them? Who manned them? How in the heck did he fit the super large Death Star planet destroying tech on them - once again diminishing the terror of what came before (The Death Star). Who were the audience in his chamber? If Luke can use the force to raise his ship and grab lightsabers in death, why doesn't he just come back and fight the emporer himself? There is zero sense, backstory or effort put into this mess. It felt so extremely rushed - like a cliff notes version of 5 movies slammed into this disaster.
This is to say nothing of the ZERO character development or chemistry between the cast. The original cast had so much chemistry you could taste it. You cared about the characters. You cared about what happened to them. This new trilogy just felt like the kid who stays at a party 3 hours after it ended. It felt awkward and sad. Say what you will about episodes 1-3, but there was at least a story in them that made sense and tied them to the original trilogy. The awkward love story of those is nothing to this. I could go on and on, but others have written far better reviews touching these issues.
Disney expects you to like this crap because they put it in a box that said Star Wars on it. Nothing about this felt like the epic conclusion of episode 6. My take away from all of this is it shouldn't have been made. The Skywalker saga actually ends with episode 6 as it should've done. The emporer died at that time. Anakin WAS the chosen one who brought balance to the force at that climactic moment when everything came to fruition and the emporer destroyed by his most trusted and dangerous Darth Vader. George Lucas was and is the father of Star Wars. His ability to convert his ideas into a palpable story on screen are simply genius, made more evident by the catastrophic failure of this movie (trilogy). Disney should be outright ashamed at this nonsensical tripe.