Not at all bad

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2019)

I read a lot of bad reviews here. Personally I think that JJ has managed to take the force awakens, fix the plot holes in the Last Jedi and make something that indeed finishes the whole original series with a lot of "member berries".
To me the movie feels like Star Wars and from here they can launch titles that have nothing or little to do with the "Skywalker saga", like I think they are planning to.
If I would need to criticise the movie it would be that the start of the movie goes overley fast, the first 10 minutes could probably take 30. Also some of the feel good moment are a little bit too long, which make them feel very "Disney" ;)
Also there are some things you should probably just not think about too much, like why they don't just go around that fire stuff to get to the Sith planet. It is space after all ;)
One thing that also disappointed me slightly was that some of the "deep fakes" of Leia were "not great".. Especially the one where she was young..
Overall I hope that Lucas/Disney has learned from this experience and create more movies with an overarching idea and do more in the direction of Rogue One, the Mandalorian and the first and last episode of this last series.. Maybe get someone involved who is an actual Starwars fan, like Fiege is at Marvel. Just to oversee the direction.. Maybe Fiege himself? ;)