Plays it safe and ends up being boring

Rating: 4/10 (24 December 2019)

Rise of Skywalker rewinds all intriguing parts of the last Jedi (Rey's parents, Snoke) to bring back the old emperor and kill him off 30min later. The gang go on a galaxy wide fetch quest, meet the emperor give some inspiring speeches and save the day (also the resistance suddenly has more than 10 members again). The Rey-Ren dynamic is still interesting and of course there's some fun parts but ultimately I found it all quite silly and even boring towards the end.