Right direction, tried too hard.

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2019)

So, I love Star Wars. Prime films, spinoffs, live action or animated. I live the games, I love the books.
What went wrong with this film? They tried too hard.
I enjoyed the story; the direction things took, unexpected twists, new lightsaber designs, Legends characters coming back into canon...
But there was no real character development. If felt messy, disjointed. There were too many major characters, too many important plot lines and the film simply wasn't long enough to accommodate it all. It was a shoot-em-up in the guise of a Star Wars film. It could have been so much better, the elements were there, but they either needed a longer film or fewer major characters.
I live Star Wars, but this is the worst of the Star Wars films, in my opinion.