All action and no soul

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2019)

The visual effects, sets, actors and budget for this movie was stellar. So much more could have been done with this. JJ Abrahams should rather stick to action movies. Maybe another Mission impossible sequel will do well with him. Not Star Wars.
You watch this movie because you are a SW fan. But this just ruined it for everyone. Its such a pity that Ron Howard dod not direct this maybe more would have been done with the story. You watch this and as with Abrahams' previous attempts you feel out of breath when watching it. He does not take time filling in the back story or properly developing characters. Instead more ships, bigger cannons, more lens flare...
The new disney made movies NOT directed by JJ abrahams are better and one feels more went into thinking the plot through in the SW universe. With the Abrahams'wars movies one feels like the plot is cobbled together and jumps from scene to scene without the storyline being told properly.
Yes he answered some of what we asked about the other SW films he directed, but left a lot of very loose ends. It felt like this one had no soul. Not like the other 8 good SW films.