My criticisms of this movie are more basic. I thought the pacing was very strange, the edits were jarring and outside of the Star Wars tone, and the plot wrapped up too neatly leaving not much space for the next movie.
The plotting was also underwhelming, the main story felt like a b-roll, the movie had two climaxes, was way too long, needless elements that had no connection to the main story, casino planet was a very unwelcome reminder of the prequels.
I really liked how it tried to push the reset button on blatant fan service. Kill the past, good yes please. Burn the dominant nostalgia that suffocates this franchise to the freaking ground.
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