Terrible exposition to set up its ridiculous bull crap premise that
ing Palpatine is back but somehow everyone knows about it, since it is Po that delivers this disgusting piece of exposition in the first 20 minutes. Constant attempts to ignore Last Jedi, I just like to rub it in because that movie was also garbage. But Last Jedi completely threw this movie out of whack. The people making this one tried their best to not acknowledge it.
Rey is overpowered as all
. People claiming Luke was a marry sue... Rey does things in this movie which literally no one has done. They don't even really have a plausible explanation for why Rey is this strong. She actually manages to defeat Palpatine, is dying or something, and then gets resurrected by Kylo Ren who then dies.
The puppets and CGI look exceptionally bad. There is a weird alien dude in the first 4 minutes that looks like something out of Roger Rabbit. There is other questionable CGI later on. Also some kind of gorilla dude which is the most uninspired looking alien in all of Star Wars. He just looks like a gorilla.
Characters become irrelevant as the movie goes on. The whole gang is pretty much just there and only Rey matters. Also they don't really have much chemistry, just choppy Avengers type of dialogue. You wouldn't even think that they're friends. Well really they aren't, not even in the movie. Rey barely knows Rose or Po.
A lot of the scenes from the trailer seem to be bait because they are only about a minute or two long. Noticeably the one where Kylo is fighting some dudes in the woods. It is just a short scene in the first 4 minutes but one that seems to have little or no bearing on the story. Basically it is just there to set up that Kylo is fighting the Rebellion 2.0 but seems completely pointless. This movie is just endless scenes edited together and it feels so tedious and choppy. The pacing and editing is pretty bad.
Nothing in this movie makes any sense whatsoever. Things happen just because they do. All of it is just complete ass pulls. How the
is Palpatine back? Why did they waste Snoke? Why does Kylo become good? How does Rey become Avatar Jesus? Hearing them say Palpatine so casually is really annoying. Palpatine somehow has his own little army or goons or whatever. How did he get them? I don't know. Palpatine is actually a clone or something, or a ghost thing? Snoke was one of his puppets or fake bodies or something.
All of it is nostalgia baiting. The music, the plot, the characters, the scenes. More or less this is a copy of Return of the Jedi. Except there are no new pieces of music, they just reuse the old score. For example they explicitly remake the throne room scene from Return of the Jedi. They have speeder chases, some aliens dancing, they have that scene from New Hope where all the generals are sitting around and one of them gets choked out, they have the wreckage of the Death Star, they have Lando in a ship, they have a sort of space battle.
This was the biggest waste of Billy D ever. Granted I kind of smiled when I saw him but it was so damn forced. Doesn't really do much since the movie's editing and focus is so out of whack.
The ending was so cringe... Rey says triumphantly "I'm Rey Skywalker". Even though as far as I could tell she has no relation to any of them. Also I think Palpatine created her or she is related to Palpatine or some weird
? Whatever, who cares about these
movies.
I could go on but there is no point.
Basically all of the leaks about this movie were true. Everything you've heard, it's true, all of it.