I'm not a star wars fan but I did enjoy TLJ. I was hoping this movie would be good but I didn't like it much.
It just opens up just casually talking about Palpatine as if he hadn't died, as if we're supposed to know that he was revived and how he came back, and he just goes "I was every bad guy, that was all me [even though I have no reason to be alive now and I'm not gonna bother explaining how I'm alive again]"
So many characters have nothing to do. Finn was wasted and so was Poe, they obviously had chemistry and should have been gay for each other. The new characters added in this movie don't really do or add much. I don't get how Holdo was able to gather so many helpers so quickly when in the last movie they struggled so much more. The first half of the movie is just searching for an item which they stumbled upon by bizarre luck falling into the right sand pit. And which was ultimately inconsequential because in the end Rey just uses Ren's wayfinder to get to Palpatine. Finn has a bizarrely useless moment where he almost confesses his love and it just goes nowhere. The story echoes the original trilogy too much except it's less satisfying seeing Ren choose to be good compared to seeing Vader choose to be good. And I would have preferred if Ren had lived instead of Rey, since what we got feels too similar to what happened between Vader and Luke and I would have preferred them to explore how a redeemed Ren would move forward as a good guy. Instead of Rey who was always good.
The movie also just feels crammed full of stuff happening, but lacking in compelling emotional drive. The most compelling parts of these movies IMO have been Ren and Rey's relationship and development, and I wanted more about that. This is the finale of the big trilogy and it started me off groaning with "why is palpatine here" and finished with a kind of by-the-books final confrontation.
This is my opinion too. Nothing new or original in the ST. It has no reason to exist ither than Disney making money and trying to show that they could do a 3-part Star Wars story better than anyone else.
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You're such a boring characterless entity. Try getting laid once in a while and maybe you'll have friends and find out what a "joke" is. - derrate