Decent movie but poor ending to franchise

Rating: 5/10 (24 February 2020)

The star wars franchise has created some of the most memorable lines and scenes in movie history, but unfortunately for this movie and the new trilogy as a whole, it didn't spark as much emotion, or anything anywhere near as special as the original films did. The characters are alot less memorable than the original ones, even the characters who didn't play huge roles in the first films are more noticable and memorable than the new key stars in the recent trilogy. Even just after watching this film the names of the main characters are easily forgotten and dont carry a powerful story with them unlike the originals. This movie was attempting to display emotion, to end the 40 year franchise, but this movie lacked any real emotion, apart from the scene where carrie fishers character princess Leia died, but this was a character who carried such an emotional and powerful status that we all knew coming in to this film this would be a sad ending for her. Overall this film displayed good action, fairly good acting, a very debatable storyline but a undoubtedly a poor ending to the star wars franchise, although there was some very enjoyable scenes throughout this film which bumped my rating up to a 6 out of 10