can you stomach some stale swiss cheese? push reset and give us Darth Caedus!

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2019)

I never thought I would look back on the Phantom Menace trilogy as being part of the good ol days, but after this mess, yeah. Makes me miss the clarity and coherence of that abomination...
I get it, pleasing everyone is impossible. But writing a good story is not about pleasing everyone, it's about making something fun, original, with a natural rhythm, a flow inherent in it's own style and intent behind it.
In my opinion, they failed hard here. This is full of plot holes, jumbled together pieces of story lines that come out of nowhere and suddenly become meaningless
I couldn't care less about any of the "heroes", I don't relate to any of them and I am finding myself thinking about the countless needless lost lives of the bad guys. a few lost rebel lives, ok. but seemingly hundreds of thousands of these government employees... and i am supposed to mourn who?...
I mean, I suddenly realized that storm trooper armor is just for show, this is why good guys never bother. Any pistol can burn right through them!
I am watching the final scenes and wondering about things like "I wonder how much these bad guys get paid? Why the hell they still fighting? What's in it for them?..."
What I am saying is that my attention and care was just not there. To be honest, it was ok. A 6/10. if it was NOT star wars but a standalone movie of similar content, would be a 4, 5 tops... So yeah, the mythos alone brought this from mediocre and broken to meh I guess ok.
But, I cannot state this enough, J.J. Abrahms man, you really screwed us over. The ending, the way that the Skywalker saga is concluded, is sad and insulting. I haven't been following all this time to have everything go to the worms like that. The title itself, "Rise of Skywalker", is about as misleading as could be, and ironically points to the very insult you have inflicted upon us by forever ruining the future of this universe.
I don't care that Disney paid money to be allowed to make up the story and disregard all the cool work put in by the new jedi order novels and follow-ups, this story, this movie, to me is the fake. The only right thing they could do at this point is go for another money grab and push reset on this thing and go back to the drawing board for episode VII and use the books for material...
Darth Caedus is the true conclusion of the Skywalker saga and will forever remain in my heart and mind as the real third act. This money grab is an abomination, a faulty remake of an original already well told. And the "real" Ben Solo, the hero from the New Jedi Order, would be rolling in his grave if he were real!