Cassa frass

Adam Driver churned out an incredible performance, but even his broad shoulders couldnt carry this bloated, rushed, plot-hole riddled exercise is nostalgia baiting. Character development? You wish. No one made tough choices that grew their characters, no time was taken to explore their changing identities other than a few throw away lines about not feeling understood, no moments that took a stand on any difficult or morally ambiguous issues... nothing that could actually move a viewer in a good way. This needed to be two films and they needed to be driven by character interactions as opposed to a constantly shifting plot landscape of sacred objects and hidden planets. It was clearly meant to be a broad ointment to all the micro factions of the fandom that were still licking wounds over unmet hopes for episodes 7&8, but rather than making everyone happy, I'm not sure it made anyone happy other than people who like simple spectacle. Fans of character development, deep and moving thematic evolution, mythic storytelling, or even compelling dialogue wont leave feeling satisfied because the film spends too much time flashing to new sets and introducing new characters and animals for the Disney merch machine to bother. Perhaps the hardest pill to swallow is ending a 9 film saga with no clear happy ending for any character, no sense of hope, happiness, or promise. There is peace, but no purpose, we have no sense of where our characters are headed or the future of the galaxy, only that a villain we all thought was dead when the movie started is still dead... cool thanks for solving a problem no one thought we had and you never bothered explaining why we had it. And we cant even really celebrate our heroes, because so much was broken or lost In the rush to a visual smorgasbord finale that they were robbed of their actual happy endings. It's not enough just to survive, you need to thrive and no one wasleft thriving... and not even everyone that should have definitely survived for the title and overarching message of the saga to make any semblance of sense did. Disappointing.