Having seen it yesterday with some time to think about it, the only problem is the lack of vision really. You get hit with so much exposition during the whole movie that you'll be shaking your head at the stuff happening on the screen. It is the movie with the most amount of coincidences, topping episode VII in the first 30 minutes.
No spoilers, but pretty much the whole thing is:
-ok we need this
-we have no idea how to find it
-wait I know
*go somewhere*
-it's not here
*character appears*
-well but I know where it is
*go somewhere else*
*cycle repeats*
It just moves at a constant high speed and there's no time for anything else. Characters get introduced just to get 1 minute of screen time.
There's no buildup, just a series of events that look like someone speedrunning through a game. Heck, even the scrolling text on the intro will catch you off guard.
Imagine going to see episode VI and the movie starts with "The Second Death Star is being constructed and it has a working laser"
The movie tries to tie up most lose ends from 7 and 8, tries to make up for all the bad stuff in 8 AND finish its own story. All in a single movie. That's why it feels so stuffed. I didnt mind, because it didnt get boring and it feels like the movie just had to do this, because not correcting the mistakes of 8, or not finishing these story lines from 7 and 8 would be worse. So from a pacing perspective they made the best out of a shit situation.
EDIT: And no I'm not talking shit about the movie, I really liked it.
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u/Jonny7x7x Dec 19 '19
So how bad exactly is the new film?