This is not a film. It's 2h30mins of Tumblr fan fiction and damage control

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2019)

I have no expectations from films since Suicide Squad. It taught me a valuable lesson.
I try to go with the tide and draw the line when it's finished. Having said that, The Rise of Skywalker was the first time in a long time when I actually came out of the theater feeling enraged by what I have seen.
There's barely a semblance of a story here. The pacing and editing are on fast forward in a desperate attempt to pile as much information as possible into the runtime.
Characters go through a video game plot that's needlessly convoluted and the action scenes, while well done from a technical pov, are weightless.
This is a soulless collage that attempts to feel like a greatest hits, but it fails to do what all films should and that is to tell a good story.
Rey being a Palpatine is a laughable reveal that goes for the samey shtick that has been going around since the beginning in the Skywalker saga, which is that only if you come from royalty can you be Force sensitive.
Rey from Nowhere was a refreshing angle on this trope, but they had to please the fans who had a ton of theories about her lineage and were outraged with Johnson's answer in TLJ.
Aside from that preposterous bit of information, they ruined Kylo Ren, who was by far the most interesting character in this new trilogy of sequels.
Giving him a redemption arc, just like his grandfather, is a sign that Abrams does not have any imagination and piggybacks as much as possible on the OT.
After that moment, when Han shows up and turns Kylo, I completely checked out and it became just visual noise.
There are no stakes in this hack job, no emotions and certainly no good storytelling.
It's something you'd read on Tumblr that was cooked up by a 14 year old and they ran with it in a desperate attempt to close off a trilogy that was badly mishandled by Kennedy and the Mouse.