It's like when DC totally wants to make Marvel movies, and fails at it, but here Star Wars wants to be Star Wars and fails at it.

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2019)

For two years people were rambling about their damaged goods The Last Jedi did to them, blaming Rian Johnson for destroying Star Wars, the whole franchise. This was going on for two years non-stop to the point Disney slowly put down their arms and decided to please as many people as they can.
I loved The Last Jedi, better than the Force Awakens, which latter was just an excuse to bring all the fans back to the cinema in an exchange of one full episode from a trilogy. Alright, acceptable. Then Rian Johnson brough a really bold, crazy, mindblowing, and mindboggling movie at the same time that brought freshness and put the Star Wars through some new territories, it was everything you should love to see nowadays, but hell, most people weren't pleased by it, most people overrambled all day long everyday throughout 2 years under every SW posts ever on social media and forums.
So Disney decided to what... to be scared by all the anger that burns all over the internet, media, and in fear they ended up to put out the most chaotic Star Wars episode ever for the all "lovely", death threatening fans out there who demand their drug dealer to bring all the right jejos in all different tastes put on the table so everybody would be happy. Amazing visuals nearly reaching the Michael Bay's style of explosive movie making? There you go, thousands of them in every 5 minute. I heard you love plot twists, and expositions. Well, you are at the right place, here you get 'em every 5 minutes (not joking by the way, that is really the case here). You didn't love the previous characters brought up in the previous episodes? Don't worry, we will bring new ones just in case, but be aware, we gotta be PC too, so we can't just change characters in our last episode in the trilogy. Oh, you didn't like Rey being a nobody and yet having force powers? Well, don't worry then, if you don't want to relate to a character then we will change her family background, just like that...
I mean.... come on... this is a mess, you can't just make a trilogy without having a vision about its ending, its finale right from the begining. If you want to keep the episodes in check, then you should consulate with the directors about the story, its main courses so it wouldn't be messed up in the end. But don't change your own vision in the last moment just because others say it to do so. You either do your job, but do it right, as you would like to do it, or do not do it at all.
I will also state it here that I didn't watch this in the cinema. Nope. I won't pay for something that has this messed up control behind it. I won't support this violent, agressive fanbase, their selfimportant movement, I feel totally ashamed of them, as a people, and as a fan. I won't support moviemaking like this where film studios are consumer support firms and leave the whole artistic creation oriented procedures behind. Nope, you will not get my support on any of this, and you managed to bring down not only Star Wars to ground zero but the whole essence of watching movies in cinema, the whole experience of going to cinema nowadays.
There are many forms of cancer, and here, we had the opportunity of engage two of them at once; These kinds of film studios and these kinds of fans.
All of you should feel ashamed of yourselves!
So now, about the movie. Is there any good elements? Yes there are many actually. Probably the second half of the movie is more comprehensive and more "movie-like" than the first half, because that... oh my god, what a mess. Characters getting from hot situations into another, then get onto one planet to another in every minutes, you just can't catch a break figuring out what the hell is going on on the screen. The second half tried to ease the tempo a bit, the whole Palpatine element of the story was totaly unnecessary but probably the most likeable one in this whole mess. What they did to Rey... well... I totaly loved the whole "a nobody, yet still one with the Force" but... I'm not that crushed with this either where it ended up. I'm more crushed about the whole practices the studios put out and the way people act nowadays. I feel ashamed of being somebody who watches Star Wars and I have never thought I will end up feeling like this, but hey, anything can happen, and this happened.
What we got here with this trilogy is three standalone movies, the 7th and 8th episode resonated with each other, but this just doesn't with any of them... well... barely. This is not a trilogy, and this is not a movie. It's a fanfare, it's a Disney world, it's an amusement park (Just like how Scorcese stated about the superhero movies, in that same way), and that's where we reached the Marvel movie making essence, that's where Star Wars totaly lost it.
Nonetheless Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody. Please, be nice to each other, and let artists do their job as they want to do it in the future. Peace!