The main thing I can say in defense of this movie is that many of the visuals are quiet good, perhaps the best in all of Star Wars. The music is also quiet good. Beyond those, this movie kind of just feels like a long descent, from hope that the film will be good to the ruination of star wars. It only gets worse with the inclusion of Rise of Skywalker, which somehow manages to be a worse movie. The destruction of Luke Skywalker's character is appalling. All the story threads set up in the Force Awakens are destroyed in the name of "subverting expectations", which basically just means throwing in random shit out of nowhere to surprise people. The bulk of the film is the worlds slowest chase, which still is somehow the best plot of the film. The Finn and Rose subplot is just awful. The waste of Finns character, who on paper should be the most interesting character in the series, is so egregious that it feels a bit racist. Rey somehow becomes even more of a Mary Sue than she was in the Force awakens.