Never Did I Think I Wouldn't Be Excited for Star Wars

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2020)

I don't even know where to begin here. This movie is just a mess. I've loved every single film, yes even The Last Jedi... but this just wasn't it. Most of my issues come from Disney more than the film itself, they made Abrams cut 20 mins out of the movie and they cut another 20 behind his back and filmed a different ending without his knowing as well. Had it not been missing an entire hour almost I'm sure it would've been fine but we'll have to hope they release the Abrams Cut. But now on to the review itself.
No backstory with what happened between episodes VIII and IX. We aren't shown how Palpentine broadcasted himself to the Galaxy, or how the First Order found out before the Resistance when it was all broadcasted on the same coms channel (revealed in the opening crawl).
Rey was too powerful for how little time she trained. Somehow she is able to Force Lightning and blow up a ship, Force Freeze Kylo Ren in place AND she knows how to heal someone through the Force. Leia couldn't have taught her that because according to the movie, Leia cut herself off from the force and never finished her Jedi training.
Reylo was forced, or wasn't given enough time to grow properly (at least in the cut we were presented with, in the 3 hour version that was supposed to be released it may have been explored more). The Knights of Ren weren't even used except for Ben Solo to absolutely slaughter them.
Rey being a Palpetine may be a nice "twist" and a decent answer to why she is so powerful but there is no way that in one year those powers would all just come at once as she starts her proper training. Rey defeating Palpetine the same way Windu got his scarred face (Lightning to the face) feels like a cop out and makes it seem like he was dumb for not stopping an attack he should've known would've happened.
Ben shouldn't have been able to fade into the Force when he died. He was way too young to have been taught how to do that. The same sex kiss at the end had no merit to the story at all except to please SJWs. I'm not homophobic or anything but it just felt misplaced, had that relationship been built upon a little bit I wouldn't have minded so much.
And finally... Rey identifying herself as a Skywalker. I can even say my disappointment in that. She wasn't close enough with either Luke or Leia to adopt that family name. Their relationships weren't built on at all, so it felt she had very little right to claim the name. And what's the point of burying Leia's and Luke's lightsabers but building her own when Luke's was technically her property. She could've just kept that one. And if there's no more evil, why even make a new one in the first place?
This movie suffers from pacing issues, points that don't correlate to the story where it should, hardly any proper answers to questions The Force Awakens asked. If the Abrams Cut is released and the other questions are answered and it doesn't feel as rushed, I will happily take some of my statements back. But as it is, this is probably the worst Star Wars movie I've seen, and it's sad too because I really wanted to like it, but the further it went on, the more I knew it wasn't going to get any better.