at least they tried

Rating: 2/10 (28 April 2020)

Disney has seriously damaged this brand. The original Star Wars always had problems that you could overlook because of its many entertaining and meaningful moments. The prequels and this trilogy are both horrendously bad. However, unlike The Last Jedi in which the director Rian Johnson was deliberately trying to run the series into the ground, there seemed to be an honest attempt to make a good movie here. Despite the numerous plot holes, logical inconsistencies, and one dimensional characters there was an effort to provide some sort of entertaining closure.
This trilogy, and this movie in particular, is not the original and had no chance to be anywhere as good. However, even with low expectations this movie is poor. One simple thing that would have improved this movie would be to give some indication of what a Jedi or Sith's powers are. On a scale of average person or average species to Superman about where is this character now? There seems to be so much power inflation (what power level is Rey at compared to Jedi from the original trilogy?).
Ultimately this is a poor movie. There have been NO good Star Wars movies since the original trilogy, with the exception of Rogue One. Obviously Star Wars is just a cash cow for Disney. Still, it will be interesting to see where they go with the franchise from here.