Just dumb all around

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2019)

So, If you're a SW fan, you probably know this movie is bad. TLJ ruined things. This movie pretty much was doomed to fail due to what RJ and KK did to TLJ. I understand JJA came on, worked with Lucas, but Disney took over and re-shot between 50-75% of this movie... and it shows. So, forgetting about all the fan disappointments, what about the movie as a movie? It's terrible. Why? It just doesn't make any sense.
1) Palpatine is back. Right from the title scrawl. ??? He was thrown down a thousand foot shaft into a reactor core that exploded. WTF.
2) He offers Kylo this armada of ships to take over the galaxy. ??? The first order is already in charge of the galaxy. TLJ killed off the resistance to a few folks who could fit on the Millennium Falcon. Luke's dead. Why does he need this? It makes no sense. Dumb.
3) The planet where Palpatine is located is super secret, not on any star charts, and is super complicated to get to due to space stuff. Then how the hell did you build hundreds of star destroyers? That takes 10s of thousands of people, to build and man. You're telling me this secret place was never discovered with all these folks and supplies coming and going? WTF.
4) There's apparently thousands of Syth worshipers. WTF? This was a long dead sect. Master and apprentice is what Yoda said; that's it. How come we've never seen any of them until now? They're also on super secret planet. Guess no one got wasted one night and told their friends about this cool cult they're in.
5) We need go to super secret planet and destroy the fleet. But we don't have anyone. It's ok, Lando's gonna go and get some folks. They show up with hundreds of ships. WTF? He goes out for half a day to give rousing peaches all across the galaxy and gets this much help? Where were they last movie? Where were they for the entire trilogy, let alone episode 4-6. Wow, he's got some really persuasive powers. Common.
And that's just the main plot points. Characters are constantly doing things that goes against their nature, even ones we're immediately introduced to. Dumb. The story is just a series of fetch quests. We're constantly jumping from point A to B to C with, as usual, no character development. And the events in this movie pretty much throw out every piece of world building that existed in the previous films.
Ray gets a little less Mary Sue treatment here. She is seen training, learning, seeking and taking advice. That's good. But she's still OP. I get the feeling that the original JJ/Lucas version was slower, delved more into character relationships, and just spent some time to make some sense of things. But we'll probably never know.
Just so stupid.