[MAJOR SPOILERS] I despise this movie with a passion. I still believed the sequel trilogy to be salvageable up until this point. Unfortunately, it ruined anything good the sequels had going for them. _The Force Awakens_ was full of trash to get you to feel nostalgic, but despite that, I thought it wasn’t awful. I still wasn’t a fan, but all hope was not lost. _The Last Jedi_ was worse. They completely butchered Luke Skywalker. Instead of being the Jedi warrior that ended the tyranny of the empire, he was reduced to a grumpy hermit drinking green titty juice. Pathetic. A whole lot of garbage happened in this one, although I did like Snoke as a villain and I thought he had potential. I had mildly enjoyed the First Order up until this point. Anything positive I said above no longer applies to this piece of hot dookie known as _The Rise of Skywalker_. Instead of actually going somewhere interesting with Snoke as a villain, they completely trash him and literally any ongoing story arcs from the previous two films because “somehow, Palpatine returned.” Yes, that’s right, they got rid of any building momentum to retcon Palpatine’s death with no explanation. And then Rey is a Palpatine I guess, but for some dumbass reason she takes on the Skywalker name and blah blah blah a bunch of bullshit. Rey and Kylo Ren’s love story is as unconvincing as ever. Oh also, they killed off Leia for some dumbass reason. One more thing: tell me, Disney, how tf does a literal LASER SWORD with the ability to cut through metal like butter, simply bounce off of someone, or doing anything BUT kill them on contact? On top of butchering the characters and plot, lightsabers were taken to the slaughterhouse as well with mechanics that make no sense. The one good thing about this movie is that it looked cool. And for that, I award this film one point. 1/10

Whilst still serviceable, <em>'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'</em> disappointed me - it makes for a relatively limp finish to the sequel trilogy. The plot is the biggest letdown. It's all over the place, it might have a good amount of action but the actual point of the film is uninteresting and feels like something we've seen before. The cast still do well amongst all that, but I can't say I'll remember a performance from this. With that said, Daisy Ridley is the best thing about it. Adam Driver is fine, but his character doesn't interest me much at this point. John Boyega and Oscar Isaac felt underused, while Kelly Marie Tran is discarded almost completely. Richard E. Grant is a slight upgrade on Domhnall Gleeson, but not by much. A shorter run time may have helped this, instead it feels kinda bloated and without much reasoning to be so. I don't dislike it, it's still just about what I'd describe as good, but given it's part of <em>'Star Wars'</em> it should've been far greater - in my opinion, at least.

This was painful to watch. Nothing works, it is almost like this movie was directed by someone who doesn't know the rules of this universe. Everybody is now force sensitive and random Jedi masters popping up here and there. A complete U turn from all the other movies and the direction they were taking and their logic. Lead by the most useless and lifeless cast ever, with a main character that contradict itself during the whole movie. Family isn't important but let me pick my family name because of my past... This movie finished to bury this franchise for me and I will now stick to The Mandalorian and stories like Rogue One or Solo. What a waste.