Lightspeed-Skipping with Desperation & Sticky Tape!

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2020)

Early on in this movie there is a scene where Poe is 'lightspeed-skipping' to escape the First Order. This pretty much sums up the final movie in the Star Wars trilogy.
A densely packed, Disney theme park ride which spends 140min rushing you from one action scene to the next without time to think or really acknowledge there maybe a story to tell.
Rather than try to complete the saga, this film overstuffs itself with more new characters, locations and narratives. From the outset the film seems to have an obsession with 'resurrection' from the return of a 'dead' character from the past to many of the core characters being killed off only to find a way back 10min later. This all gets in the way of the movie trying to find / get to a conclusion.
And maybe this is the point, the confused lack of narrative, more rehashing of the past, the cover ups (of TLJ) and the desperate need to please leaves this film as nothing more than an overwhelming, nostalgic collage, roughly stuck together in the hope that everyone will leave with something.