Sure, the movie had some greatly epic scenes that were satisfying to watch and emotionally entertaining, but overall, the story and plot were Horrible. I could name a million things that didn't quite fit in with the story.
As the last star wars film, the rise of skywalker did not have a sense of closure for the star wars franchise. there were too many things that didn't make sense. The whole trilogy was poorly done.
I'm beginning to think the rise of skywalker was made just to sell merchandise. I mean they added way too many new things into that movie and gave themselves very little time to expand upon any of those ideas. Perhaps they should have done a part-one and part-two.
The rise of skywalker copied too many things from its previous movies. instead of being new and original they focused more on bringing a sense of nostalgia. The main villain was the same for all three trilogies as they brought back Palpatine for some unexplained reason. The main killer-weapon was still some kind of planet-killing device as well. All the resistance had to do was simply take out a single communications tower to prevent the destroyers from communicating with each other. I mean why didn't one of the destroyers fly away to destroy other planets, and what was the point in creating an army of planet-killing ships on a planet that they can't even escape.
The movie introduced new characters that had no effect on the plot. The D-O droid was made solely for merchandise. Just the other day, I was walking around in a star wars gift shop where a lot of the merchandise featured this D-O character in which I knew nothing about. then I watched the movie and saw that the English-speaking droid did absolutely nothing throughout the movie. I also noticed they added another black person as a sort-of supporting character for Finn since she used to be a stormtrooper as well. They did the same for Poe too, when they added that bounty hunter girl.
I could go on and on forever about the flaws in the movie, but overall, I think it was ridiculously Horrible! For this reason, I gave this movie 1 star. 😠👿👎🏽