A kid playing with toys.

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2019)

That's what this movie amounted to.
A child sitting on his floor, holding action figures in his hands, murmuring indecipherable dialogue, hammering the toys together and throwing them across the room.
I'm not going to even dip into the utter destruction of the remaining nostalgia in this movie, I'm sure that's been covered countless times.
Who says "hey, let's make a movie where the A plot involves being chased across the galaxy until the heroes run out of fuel! Then, we'll take one of the most breathtaking scenes in Star Wars and give the honors to a tertiary character!"
This movie does have one of the best lightsaber battles in a stacked category. It has the single most awe-inspiring scene in the whole pantheon. The visuals are stunning at every turn.
But it's a vapid, spiteful entry into the Canon in the end. I don't like to speak ill of films. But this one, for whatever reason, irked me.