The horror, the horror, the horror

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2019)

My goodness this movie was a struggle; something to be endured cheerlessly and seemingly endlessly. Looking back on it, I'm struggling to remember what happened in the first half other than Adam Driver gurning as an alternative to emoting and Daisy Ridley keeping her pyjamas impressively clean as she clambered over and on to various very dirty things.
The gurning continued till the final scene from the aforementioned Mr Driver...I guess when no one really knows how this Force WhatsApp thing works, it's hard to reproduce it on screen.
When the best lines are reserved for a golden robot, perhaps the movie's just trying to do too much with too little in terms of exposition and being lazy with it too. Oscar Isaac perhaps should go back to the cat wrangling in Brooklyn...
So yeah, disappointing end to a saga that's basically been in the zeitgeist for all my life. It's funny, after the butchery visited upon the Alien franchise as the studio accounts department got off the elevator at the screenwriting floor, at least Ridley Scot (t??) got back in the chair and went somewhere interesting, original and above all superbly crafted. All we got was a Seventh Sense wonder at seeing the image of Carrie Fisher from live shots they managed to shoehorn in there. As much of a hack that yer man Lucas was/is, perhaps this was the time to let him the saga home with something of the passion and love he showed when he started this journey in a galaxy far far away etc etc!! Sure JJ's a good director with some moments of greatness in him, but he didn't bring it here.
And didn't John Boyanga start off as having a British accent? He's village drama club stuff here....