Underdeveloped ideas and characters

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2019)

Lots of improvised plot points. They had a trilogy for crying out loud! They had three different movies to develop story arcs like Rey Palpatine, Palpatine's agenda, Luke searching for him all these years and training Rey to defeat him would have been more believable than Luke just giving up on life, Ben revealing Rey's true origins in the Last Jedi, rather than telling that 'you're nothing' big fat lie, Leia being a Force user (which has me thinking, how comes she didn't train her son if she was that good?). But no, they just kept introducing new characters (besides the leads) who were supposed to be big deals in one episode, only to kill them off or neglect them completely in the next (Hux, Phasma, Rose, Holdo and whoever Benicio del Toro's character whose name I don't even care to remember). Sure the visuals are spectacular, but the first trilogy managed to tell a far better story with far more modest technology. And lastly, even though Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley shine in their portrayals, their characters were poorly served in this movie.