OZZO

Star Wars was one of my favorite movies of all times back in the days so with each new movie I write a review for it. I have to say that after terrible 7th and 8th movies I did not want to go to the cinema, so I watched it just now. The finale is overall better, and this is what everyone was expecting from the last chapter. However, multiple plot holes and unconvincing play of the actors made it impossible for me to empathize with the characters. Probably, the only good exception is Rey. Kylo is not that bad here too, but not great either. The movie is saved by pretty good graphics and occasional splashes of pleasant or interesting moments. It is quite entertaining to watch.
And here are some moments that I could not look past to treat the movie seriously (spoilers ahead):
• At the very start of the movie the ship is being repaired by a slug. How, if I may ask? With fantasy of a dozen people and unlimited possibilities of CGI this is what they came up with? No multi-hand or multi-fingered creature or a droid actually suitable to be a mechanic? No, let it be a slug. =)))
• Palpatin coming out of nowhere raises many questions but OK, theoretically possible. His reasons however are a mess. If he truly wanted Rey to kill him, why insist that Kylo kills her? And if he was powerful enough to drain them both, why did he bother with either of them at all? Drain Kylo at the start of the movie, drain Rey at the end - mission accomplished.
• Luke was looking for Palpatin really? Why would he? As far as Luke is aware Palpatin is dead (he witnessed it). And in this movie there is Luke's diary with clues conveniently in Rey's possession. Such a lame plot.
• Kylo's timing when wearing and not wearing a mask is just weird. Overall, he does not really need it - he already damaged the series enough when he took off the mask the first time. Kylo might as well continued the journey with his face.
• If Rey can feel Chewbakka, why could not she feel that he wasn't on that ship she destroyed?
• When Chewbakka is caught, that stern looking commander requests to interrogate him but when they later catch him again AND two more rebels, for some reason there is no need for interrogation?
• No backup for droids in a specialist mechanic shop is very unlikely.
• When saving Chewbakka the crew kills several soldiers in the hangar and move on. No hiding the bodies, nothing. Yet the station is not alerted. I guess this was a cell of the most useless soldiers everybody forgot about. And they are found by the commander of the whole ship of course :-)
• Stormtroopers are useless pawns across all 9 movies. It makes no sense they wear that "armor" if they all die from a single hit. Also, I assume those helmets are actually solid plastic and troopers shoot blindly. Did you count how many times they ever hit a target? One =))) It was probably a random blast anyway.
• A spy in the first order THAT guy? Totally unrealistic scenario and consequentially he acts like a fool in this new movie (he was a decent character before, if you remember).
• If Rey can hold herself above ground, why would she need a boat to get to those Death Star remains?
• Navigation for a fleet of star destroyers depends on a tiny tower that is not even protected, just staying there in the field. No comment.
• If you've seen previous movies and read some lore, destroyers are very powerful ships, each with a fleet of interceptors. So why is this massive force doing nothing most of the fight?
• When Finn is on the top of the Falcon (when just saved from the capital ship), the Falcon flies vertically, but somehow Finn did not fall from it. A pity.
• After the rebels win we see destroyers falling down on planets. Why the hell would they fall? And are the rebels so incredibly stupid to destroy superior tech they could use?
• Disney-style cheesy happy ending is almost unbearable. Imagine if they would all die in quick sands. What a turn that would be.

OZZO