I didn't think the finale had much emotional weight to it. It just sort of happened. And the fact that the First Order was able to figure out how to build hundreds of planet destroying weapons (a bunch of flying death stars!) and yet somehow every single ship blows up simply by the resistance shooting at a certain point on the bottom of all the ships? Nah, not buying it.I just got back from watching it. It's a fine movie. Better than Force Awakens, but not as good as Last Jedi IMO. On its own, it's a decent film, but really underwhelming as a finale for both a trilogy and especially for a nine-film saga. The final battle feels exactly the same as the ones in I-VIII and lacks the "last stand" we saw in finales earlier this year with Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones.
And somehow all the main characters escape death when Palpatine strikes up at the resistance? They made Palpatine seem weak in this movie. The real Palpatine, not the one who won't even take the name. They had her wayyyyyy over-powered. I did like the training scene, but it needed to be in TFA or TLJ.
I literally burst out laughing in the theater when this moment happened because it was just so damn dumb.And Hux being a spy was completely stupid and came out of nowhere. I get that he wants to take over as Supreme Leader, but surely there are better ways of going about it than sabotaging your allies while at war? Isn't Kylo Ren supposed to be great at reading people's minds? How the hell did he not pick up on that?