Not the ending we we wanted

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2019)

I'm very conflicted about this movie and the sequel trilogy in generel. The acting was good and overall the dialog was well written. The best thing about the sequel and this movie is by far Kylo Ren and Adam Driver's performance. His portrayal was brilliant. Storywise this saga has fallen from grace. Say what you want about the prequels but the plot, characters and lore was outer worldly. Lucas has an imagination without equal. The story just feels very flat. They shouldn't have brought Palpatine back, Finn and Poe and their stories feels insignificant, and the movie is in general too fast faced focusing on the action instead of the plot/characters. Worst of all, this movie or rather JJ Abrahams/Disney have shown little respect to the movies and lore prior to the sequels. This movie is so divisive that it feels like you have to choose between acknowledging either the old SW movies or the sequel trilogy as the real SW and the other almost as non-canon. The old SW movies and the sequel trilogy are not coherent movies. Lucas' legacy is in flames and especially Anakin Skywalker's. I wouldn't rate this a 1/10 as a lot of the users have done because I don't consider this movie to be a bad one, it's just not a great movie when you consider it to be the ending of the Skywalker saga. Too many bad decisions were made. It's not the ending we wanted.
And last thing: I actually liked RJ's decision about Rey's parents being "no one" instead of Rey being a Palpatine. It just felt forced and we have seen this kind "plot twist" waaay too many times before.