I didn't leave the theater mad, but I left very disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2019)

So I think alone this movie is good. You could probably chop this story up and make it three movies with a great rise fall and conclusion. But it's not a trilogy. It's the last movie in one. They embark on a movie that has a totally different plot and direction than the first two movies in the trilogy and just hope everyone loves it because it's Star Wars. Again, I thought this movie is fine. It felt like if you were watching the original trilogy and at the beginning of the ROTJ the crawl said "Darth Malak has returned and now Darth Vader and Luke hunt for answers" and instead of a conclusion to the story you were building up to you get another one that by all means sounds cool but wouldn't be as satisfying as the one that was planned. It seems like a hollow victory. Yay! We won but ... what did we win? The emperor came back, which was introduced in a commercial and then that was the plot for the entire movie. It felt like damage control, and as a person that HATES the Last Jedi, I felt disappointed. I'm glad they listened to the fans because whether you like it or not, those hardcore fans people love complaining about are the reason why Star Wars is still here. Their voices SHOULD be heard. But the problem was is that Disney let Rian Johnson change fundamental parts of the story they were going to tell and when JJ got his hands on it the only option was to embark on a new story. All in all, I didn't leave the theater mad, but I left very disappointed.