Has its moment but ends up falling flat

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2019)

I want to start this off by saying I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and while I do feel these most recent Star Wars films aren't the best & could be vastly improved I'm also not going to be super toxic. I won't give it a 1/10 because there are maybe only a couple films that truly deserve a 1/10.
Anyways, on the surface this film is a large-scale blockbuster with lots of beautiful shots, great visuals, decent action and some alright humor throughout. It's when you go below the surface, however, that the cracks start to show. There are so many plot holes, 'McGuffins', new characters that do nothing, and a ton of exposition that all requires the film to move at break-neck speed and really doesn't allow you to settle in.
Once you think about the logic of certain choices in the film they make absolutely no sense. There are certain moments in this movie that seem to completely ignore the lore of the previous films. One of the biggest crimes with this new trilogy was that it wasn't completely thought out and made by the same group of writers and directors prior to Episode 7. Instead we had a train wreck of a trilogy that literally feels detached from one movie to the next.