Well, I do like Rey...

Rating: 6/10 (20 January 2020)

Saw this the other night.
About what I expected. ... well, I didn't expect Rey to be Palpatine's frellin granddaughter though...
I become so accustomed to the visual awe these movies provide that I'm even more let down by the lack of a coherent storyline when I see them I guess. The same with the last Terminator movie.
While I'm not a huge fan of 'The Force Awakens', (copy, bigger, copy, bigger) I think these "3", might have been better had JJ done all three. Maybe that way we wouldn't have spent so much time in this one catching up for what wasn't told in 'The Last Jedi'
Pretty much a paint by numbers finale. Got all the cameos in. Palpatine didn't die after all and he's amassed a bazillion ships, blah, blah. We must stop him, or he'll amass a bazillion more ships, blah, blah... I do enjoy Rey though.
I never felt anything aside from Rey hugging Princess Leia goodby. (and I think that was because Carrie Fisher passed away) Kylo Ren's death was expected and I never once thought Rey would turn to the dark side. Maybe if the 2nd movie had her to do just that it might have been better.
I'm not upset. Star Wars just doesn't mean that much to me (or maybe it used to but doesn't anymore), but man Disney really screwed the pooch with these last 3 movies... they made a gazillion dollars, so they will see them as gold and probably give us more just like it.
For me, the best Star Wars since the 'Empire Strikes Back' are 'Rogue One' and the recently released 'Mandalorian'. I should include 'The Clone Wars' animated series as I've heard great things about it, but I haven't seen enough it to say for myself.
I'm not even going to rank them... I guess my midichlorian count isn't high enough.
I am going to buy a baby Yoda though :-)