And we thought the prequels were bad. Oh dear.

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2020)

When I first saw this movie, I thought "Hey, this is alright."
Then, I looked into the story. It's awful.
Simply put: it's so half-baked, inconsistent, dissatisfying, unreasonable, and filled with plotholes and irrelevant subplots.
Remember that explosion where Leia got sucked out of the ship into THE VACUUM OF OUTER SPACE? Yeah. The vacuum of space should have rendered her dead within minutes. She was out there for the span of 2-3 minutes, so she should be dead right?
Nah, she pulls a space power move out of think air right then and there and floats back. We now know that Leia used to train with the force in The Rise of Skywalker. WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO KNOW THAT SOONER SO IT WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE, YOU KNOW.
Luke could have been better. Rey tells Luke about the death of Han Solo (Luke's right hand man, mind you), and Luke does nothing more than be like "Well, that sucks I guess idk lol." Wow. Nice display of emotion.
And let's talk about Snoke's death. Why exactly was he here? Like seriously, WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING HIM? He does nothing throughout the entirety of his appearance in the sequels, so he feels unnecessary.
Finally, Finn and Rose. Why was this subplot so pushed on in the movie? It's literally there to stretch out the run time. It's so unnecessary. No one likes it. It has no place in a canonical Star Wars movie. Like come on! That's something LEGO Star Wars would do, and pull off perfectly.
Overall, this is the ABSOLUTE worst Star Wars movie since Attack of the Clones. Honestly, coming back and seeing a 7/10 rating baffles me and then some. I get it, the visuals are cool and the action looks decent enough, but that's not why you come to see a movie. You come to see it for the story, and especially if it's a big franchise like Star Wars.