Just an empty experiance.

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2019)

With the new Star Wars trilogy now completed I can look into this movie and the last two and see lots of interesting points.
The first was good but because of it being the starting off point it didn't get to develop it characters in real compelling ways. That was for the second film to do, witch it just didn't. The Last Jedi seemed to forget and or ignore entire plot points and arcs.
Creating a big problem for this movie to handle, having to complete a disjointed trilogy in two and a half hours. How can this be done some may ask. The answer is that it can't, at least by the people handling the franchise right now.
The biggest flaw in The Rise of Skywalker is the pacing. The entire movie never stops to breath once in the whole two and a half hours. It just keeps going and going trudging on ahead with no plan, no emotion and no care in the world about the plot or characters.
Finn and Poe are reduced to minor side characters but are treated as though they are main characters with arcs and stuff. However because of the pacing problem it's no more than,
"Oh, no I can't open the cookie jar Ray."
"Don't worry Finn sometimes brute force can work just as well."
(Smashes cookie jar)
"Wow thanks Ray, now I'm a better person..."
The only arc that has any payoff is Ben Solos. Who was the only think keeping my eyes open, but even that they mess up because in the final big battle know what he says...OW.
Yep that's right, the entire third act Ben only utters one word. How's that for a character arc.
And that kind of shows off the consequence of a badly paced movie, rushed characters and a empty experience with little to no emotion or attachment to the characters or story.