Pretty bad if I’m being honest. I like Rian a lot and don’t think you can hold that film against his overall quality as a writer/director but that movie just had so many issues both little and large.
Some of the smaller things bother me the most. Rose crashing her vehicle into Finn’s cause we win with love not hate or some crazy stuff was so asinine to me. One of those moments where it makes no sense and you can only even partially justify it if you reason that the character had read the script and knew the outcome of her action beforehand.
Cause otherwise, there’s no guarantee that Rose doesn’t kill Finn and herself in that crash. And if she does so, not only does she a) thwart maybe your last hope to take out that weapon b) kill the guy you were attempting to save and c) die in the process.
quite the gamble.
I actually enjoy JJ’s second one more than TLJ cause as nonsensical as it was, by that point we sort of knew the trilogy was a lost cause and you could just put your brain on autopilot and enjoy the show.
Palps is back?? What? Whatever more McDiarmid, let’s go! Wayfinders, Sith home planet, random fleet of Star Destroyers from God knows where? I’m in.
I thought Isaac and Boyega, at the very least, had better story arcs in Rise of Skywalker and overall, I was entertained.
TLJ not only has a bunch of frustrating aspects, it also doesn’t have much rewatchability and I don’t find it particularly entertaining.
One of the reasons I actually go to bat for Solo and Rogue One is that they were, at the very least, entertaining, fun movies from my perspective.