JimAtEOI

The story is a 5. Political correctness is a 3. Visually it is a 6. Nostalgia is a 6 for being there, and a 3 for being ****. It is not as cringy as I expected. I was pretty sure I would be giving it a 3 instead of a 4 based on what I had heard. I certainly wouldn't pay money to watch any of these new Disney or Marvel movies. It was tempting to give it a zero because the Star Wars franchise was obviously hijacked to push a politically correct agenda, but I'm reviewing the movie--not the intentions. Pros: Nothing really stands out as a pro other than some aspects of the brief appearance by Yoda and some aspects of Luke's actions at the end. Cons: The bad guys are lead by men, and the good guys are led by women. The bad guys are white, and the good guys are diverse. The women leaders are military leaders. Yet another movie that feels it must show us role models of women leading other women in a healthy manor in order to help real women overcome their natural tendency to not get along with each other ... while omitting such relationships and role models for men. The men are like kids and the women are like wise mothers. The men are usually wrong and unstable. Prominently shows that even the main two good men still don't respect women enough. Rey is a Mary Sue as always (though not as much of a Mary Sue as in The Force Awakens). Rey continues to have zero personality. Rey and most of the other characters show zero signs of having a sexuality. The token black guy is a coward again ... trying to run away ... again. One of the women sacrificed her life to stop one of the men from sacrificing his life just as he was seconds away from saving all of them ... because that wasn't his call ... but apparently it was her call? One of the women leaders instantly and conveniently developed the ability to fly through space without a ship or even a suit, which seemed as dumb as it sounds. The movie kept doing stupid unexpected things for no apparent reason other than to be unpredictable. We are supposed to believe that the lady admiral who reminds us of a new-age book store clerk is so strategically brilliant that she thought of a really obvious new way to use hyperspace that no one in this universe ever thought of before, which is just asinine, but which is doubly asinine because no characters could have thought of it before because it broke the rules of how hyperspace works in Star Wars and in the entire sci-fi genre.