A 'good' star wars film

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2019)

I usually don't write reviews for movies because i never feel over passionate about a film to do so, however after seeing the flack this film is getting alongside its positive impact on its fans i couldnt help but air my opinions regardless.
This film had a lot to make up for when recovering from 'the last jedi' and many like me, didnt think it could possibly do so after Rian Johnson's massive blunder of a film. However, even though Rise of skywalker is not perfect, it manages to do so in a way which pleases the audience to the best possible extent without alienating them by over compensating. This film in many ways can be seen as a safe way to end the skywalker saga (like many have stated) But, it fufilled its purpose which is whats important.
My analogy for star wars usually comes down to two things, storyline and action/choreography I.e if the storyline is coherent but not overfilled with subliminal messages and conotations and the action is engaging, believable and has enough sci fi elemnts to fill the audience with wonder the film will be good. These two elemts are ultimatly whats important to the fans, obviously cinematograpghy, sound design , editing and mise en scene is important in terms of technicallity but when making an impression on the audience to get a postive response these two aspects are paramount. Futhermore only one of them have to be good for the film to be good, the original trilogy had very good storyline and sub par choreograpghy, wilst the pequals was the opposite. If a star wars film does both of these well it will make the film increasingly better; if the director choses to pay attention to the small details which fans are (understandably) known to nit pick on, then the star wars film has the patential to even be perfect. Overall, star wars is heavily reliant on the fans for sucess, if you alienate them such as the last jedi did then your film will fail, so whats important is to have a fun action packed film with a stroyline which suits the canon yet is cohenrent enough to make sense to everyone.
The rise of skywalker has one clear goal in mind, to make a good star wars film that safely concludes the saga in a way that everyone will be happy with. Of course if it had enough time and effort, it could have small little edits and story choices to be perfect but overall both the stroyline and choreorgrapghy was to a standard which made the film a 'good star wars film' not amazing, not perfect but good . As i watched the film i did find many glaring plot holes and little issues which bugged me, and im sure hardcore fans could find several issues which doesnt fit with some sought of canon. And yes there are some moments where we want answers to events or that just seem plain lazy. But truth be told anyone who watches this film coud do so and could do so for hours, but thats not important. This film knew what it had to do, JJ abrams knew what he had to do and they did it. A star wars fim which was fun, had choreograpghy which was fun to watch and story which made everyone feel a number of feelings and made sense and, thank , did not have little to any mad. This film was good, 7/10 maybe a push but im happy with this ending, and just because its not perfect doesnt mean its bad, just enjoy it for what it is and be done with it is the attitude i Have with this film. I may be critiscised for this review one way or another, and im open to it as long as its constructive, but its just a film dude, not that deep XD