Given what JJ had to do, this is amazing

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2019)

One thing all these negative reviews are forgetting is that JJ was truly given an impossible task for this movie. He originally set up a trilogy and it is a known fact that for the second film Rian Johnson purposefully changed large aspects of the story to subvert expectations. As a result it made it to where we had a set up film heading off in one direction for ep7 and then doing a complete 180 for ep8. He had to take a fragmented story with no clear direction and a split and extremely vocal fanbase and somehow make one movie to try and appease everyone. I think given these facts this movie was amazing. I walked in thinking it was impossible to please anyone and walked out thinking that while this movie is as many people have been saying "a lot" it does connect the dots and make events from both of the sequel movies make a little more sense. Was it perfect? No. Was it what I was wanting to happen in a sequel trilogy? No. But given where we were at and JJ only having this movie to fix it I think it was amazing.