Episode 9: We fixed it.

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2020)

When I was 6 years old uncle took me and my 10 year old cousin to see the original at the local theater. The line was a few hundred people long and despite my impatience, it was worth the wait.
I loved the original movie, Empire and even the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi (I was 12).
Over decades I watched the trilogy many times and was excited when the prequels were announced.
Sadly the prequel movies were, in my opinion, crap. So when the sequel trilogy was announced I was less enthused. But The Force Awakens wasn't bad. It wasn't great but it was at least fun to watch. Sadly the Last Jedi was painfully bad - so bad in fact that for the first time in my personal history I didn't go see it in the opening week, nor the second week. In fact I didn't bother seeing it in theaters at all. Episode 8 was that bad.
So now I've watched it on Amazon Prime and Episode 9 was pretty good, much of the movie draws from Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn" novels with the resurrected emperor and the dark fleet. Maybe that's why it's so much better than the last 5 movies.
Rise of Skywalker has it's flaws but overall it's at least as good as Return of the Jedi.