Really Bad

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2019)

I never thought a Star Wars movie would make me miss the Phantom Menace but this one just did some how. This is one of the worst movies that I've ever paid to go watch. I'm a lifelong Star Wars fan and while I didn't think the new trilogy held up to the original one I certainly enjoyed the first two films and was looking forward to this one as well.
This movie is a complete mess. There are so many ridiculous things that this film does that just walks all over canon from the past films, including the last one, that it's disappointing events in this scrap pile will become Star Wars canon. The prequel's took some liberties with Jedi abilities but I didn't think it went too far at all. This movie just makes the Jedi seem like a whole other type of character than what Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader were. Suddenly those that are force sensitive can know heal each other, meet and fight through some type of force portal and transfer force power.
The ending had zero climax to it. Just because the riders decided to add 1 million star destroyers and 1 million alliance ships doesn't make the scene any more exciting than the one in Return of the Jedi. It just look like a giant video game. a star destroyer was actually a really cool thing in the original Star Wars and now there's so many of them that there's nothing special anymore. The problem is they didn't come up with anything cooler than a star destroyer so we're still stuck with those but now they're a dime a dozen like a track home. Also the new emperor's throne looks like a rip off of the iron throne in that little known HBO series that just finished....
Killing off Chewbacca and bring him back two seconds later and having an emotional goodbye with C-3PO all the while he comes back to his regular self 10 minutes later it's not a way to get the audience on edge. The movie relies on nostaliga and cheap tricks to get people involved but those are fleeting moments that don't work.
This movie is a total cash grab and opportunity to sell more toys. There were so many cool things that could've done with the new trilogy and they didn't do so bad in the first two but this is just the complete opposite of sticking a landing.
Can we start a gofundme to buy back the Star Wars franchise from Disney?