What a cluster

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2019)

The movie starts with the crawl, one of the worst crawls of the entire series in my opinion. Then out of no where gives us the best opening scene in a star wars movie since A New Hope. After that the movie is almost too fast paced to even comprehend. It's evident that the original cut had much more than what the final cut gave us. The editing is choppy, but isn't such a problem because the movie looks so gorgeous which is to be expected with a movie with such a high budget. The film relies on fan service which is expected with this series and I didn't have a problem with most of it. After The last Jedi it seems like they spent the first two acts undoing everything that happened in the previous film. This is quite annoying because it gave it gave the last film no purpose. The reason this movie only deserves a 5/10 is because of what we as an audience knew it could have been. The third trilogy in the saga could not decide what it wanted to be and had no direction. Switching directors in the middle of it ruined it for me. Both directors had different directions and the result was a cluster of fast paced scenes and trying to do service to the original trilogy while adding new elements to make it original. It just didn't work and left fans upset.