Unfortunately, this movie somehow reflects the way society's been going on for the last 15-20 years - the ever growing trivilialization, consumerism and regurgitation of works of genius from past generations who paid blood, sweat and tears for their works to be seen, heard and fealt - all of this now to get a quick buck at the local mall. Shameful...shameful...
7,876 Reviews
This film clearly displays this trilogy's biggest flaw...
AlsExGal22 December 2019
... which is that there was no overarching story to this trilogy planned.
Say what you will about the prequels -years later they aren't considered secretly great or misunderstood. But they did one thing right. They expanded the universe of Star Wars with more world building and more lore, some good, some bad. The prequel story, while stilted, was the product of a single vision. In the end you had bad execution with good building blocks.
The Sequel Trilogy doesn't expand anything, instead it makes everything smaller. Star Wars has never felt so small and tired as it does after The Rise of Skywalker. Each movie exists just to tear down and apologize for what came before it. Anakin/Vader's entire character arc is completely and unforgivably undermined after this film.
Overall the movie was so bloated and overstuffed with choppy pacing to course-correct from The Last Jedi. It's Flanderization in action. The original movies had so many little touches and so much atmosphere and craftsmanship beyond a few big reveals, neat action set pieces, and bizarre coincidences with the same ten people running into one another over and over. The original films built iconic imagery and characters in the context of them doing things and bonding and building. This was not always perfectly done, but it was done well enough to feel meaningful.
You can't just write a movie with the assumption you already have all of those things and skip the work it takes to get them. You can trick people for awhile by using the familiar imagery and beats and deconstructing the world with meta-humor (Abrams did that well for The Force Awakens if nothing else), but you just cash in that goodwill and cheapen all of that stuff by association.
Oh well, the big action movies these days are indeed made for children and China - I can't remember who recently said that, but it's true.
Say what you will about the prequels -years later they aren't considered secretly great or misunderstood. But they did one thing right. They expanded the universe of Star Wars with more world building and more lore, some good, some bad. The prequel story, while stilted, was the product of a single vision. In the end you had bad execution with good building blocks.
The Sequel Trilogy doesn't expand anything, instead it makes everything smaller. Star Wars has never felt so small and tired as it does after The Rise of Skywalker. Each movie exists just to tear down and apologize for what came before it. Anakin/Vader's entire character arc is completely and unforgivably undermined after this film.
Overall the movie was so bloated and overstuffed with choppy pacing to course-correct from The Last Jedi. It's Flanderization in action. The original movies had so many little touches and so much atmosphere and craftsmanship beyond a few big reveals, neat action set pieces, and bizarre coincidences with the same ten people running into one another over and over. The original films built iconic imagery and characters in the context of them doing things and bonding and building. This was not always perfectly done, but it was done well enough to feel meaningful.
You can't just write a movie with the assumption you already have all of those things and skip the work it takes to get them. You can trick people for awhile by using the familiar imagery and beats and deconstructing the world with meta-humor (Abrams did that well for The Force Awakens if nothing else), but you just cash in that goodwill and cheapen all of that stuff by association.
Oh well, the big action movies these days are indeed made for children and China - I can't remember who recently said that, but it's true.
I regret Disney buying StarWars
marcus-a-call30 December 2019
I can't call this movie good. I yawned my way through the first half and when it finally started telling a story in the second half, I hated the story they told. I shouldn't be surprised from what they did in the previous movies though.
I just wish they respected the history of the movies and didn't try so hard to outdo everything that came before.
I just wish they respected the history of the movies and didn't try so hard to outdo everything that came before.
Disregard all 1/10 reviews.
jamescoghlan19 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Giving a movie 1/10 means there was absolutely nothing slightly positive about it which is a complete lie.
No it wasn't perfect, but if you just sit back and watch rather than spend the 2 hours nitpicking for flaws you will feel it was a movie nowhere near as bad as people want you to think it is. It still baffles me how Star Wars fans are so determined to let the world know they hate it so much.
If someone reviews movies with only 1/10 or 10/10 then that says all you need to know about them.
No it wasn't perfect, but if you just sit back and watch rather than spend the 2 hours nitpicking for flaws you will feel it was a movie nowhere near as bad as people want you to think it is. It still baffles me how Star Wars fans are so determined to let the world know they hate it so much.
If someone reviews movies with only 1/10 or 10/10 then that says all you need to know about them.
Look, I get it......
rdanielhoward20 December 2019
You're a hard core Star Wars junkie. You collect the action figures and every other type of memorabilia. You own multiple costumes and find reasons to actually wear them. You speak Wookie. It's your thing. I respect that, and I get why this film isn't deep enough or consistent enough with the long term story lines to satisfy you. This review isn't for you. You're a separate category of human. It's all good.
For the rest of us who have grown up with the SW franchise (and who may even have sat in a theater back in the mid seventies, like I did), who have enjoyed the films, but haven't taken that last set of steps necessary to deeply integrate Jedi lore into our own lives on a regular basis, this film is *great.*
I cared about the characters.
The nods to the original films made me feel all the feels.
The effects were spectacular.
Several funny, if goofy, moments.
Story line was fairly easy to follow (we rewatched the previous film yesterday, so that helped).
Acting? Yeah. I was good with it. Oscar-worthy stuff? Well no, duh.....
A helluva lot of fun? Most definitely.
Set all expectations aside and just go see it. You'll have fun if you aren't a member of the aforementioned class of afficionados. 😜😜😜
For the rest of us who have grown up with the SW franchise (and who may even have sat in a theater back in the mid seventies, like I did), who have enjoyed the films, but haven't taken that last set of steps necessary to deeply integrate Jedi lore into our own lives on a regular basis, this film is *great.*
I cared about the characters.
The nods to the original films made me feel all the feels.
The effects were spectacular.
Several funny, if goofy, moments.
Story line was fairly easy to follow (we rewatched the previous film yesterday, so that helped).
Acting? Yeah. I was good with it. Oscar-worthy stuff? Well no, duh.....
A helluva lot of fun? Most definitely.
Set all expectations aside and just go see it. You'll have fun if you aren't a member of the aforementioned class of afficionados. 😜😜😜
A movie without a story to tell
erraticse28 December 2019
Star Wars: Episode IX is, at times, a decent thrill ride, and it provides us with some satisfying moments, but it fails to tell a compelling story. It feels empty. It rushes through a corporate checklist of must-have moments at a chaotic pace. It manages to thrill with epic space battles, but it lacks a soul. There's no creative vision here, no story to tell. The pressure that comes with making a Star Wars movie seems to have shackled the creators, preventing them from doing anything interesting with the film. It's a shame. The Star Wars universe is one of the greatest fictional universes ever created. It should provide fertile ground for many new and interesting stories. If I were Disney I would take a serious look at the creative process for these films. They could probably learn a thing or two from Marvel Studios.
RIP Star Wars. Every inconsistency listed below.
ben_busche21 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This movie introduced an absurd amount of inconsistencies, to the point where either they purposely reversed the whole point of the first 6 films to slap Lucas and his fans in the face, or they never watched any of the previous films at all. First I'll talk about what I liked.
The acting, the visuals, the effects, the amount of lightsaber screen time, racial diversity, and obviously John Williams' score, were outstanding.
Here's what I didn't like:
* George Lucas confirmed that Palpatine had died long before Disney, the whole purpose of the first 6 films was that Anakin Skywalker was to grow up and defeat the sith to restore balance, which he did. And then this movie reversed that entirely
* No introductory entrance scene from Palpatine, it's just thrown into the opening crawl that he's still alive....
* Rey has healing powers? RIP Qui Gonn and literally everyone that has died in Star Wars up until now
* Speaking of healing powers, that exact kind of power is what Anakin had spent most his adult life trying to acquire, everything he's done is to obtain more power and knowledge of the dark side, and then boom Rey just has it all of a sudden.... Anakin turned his back on everything he was taught in an effort to acquire healing powers. Rey is just walking around healing basilisks like it's nothing. So you don't need to turn to the dark side and kill billions of people? Light side jedis can heal all along? Anakin got pranked! Why didn't Yoda and Mace have healing powers or even know of its possibility?
* The convenience of the whole dagger thing really took me out of the movie, wait whats that dagger thing? 3-PO pls translate. "it contains the coordinates of the exact place we are searching for!" hmmmmm that was real freaking convenient wasn't it, also why did the dagger exist? Why would Palpatine make it and write exact coordinates on it?
* Apparently all it takes to defeat Palpatine is to have two lightsabers instead of one? You don't need years of training or wisdom...?... if only Yoda/Mace had known
* The fact that Palpatine was able to conceive means he was able to feel love at some point in his life........ did he have a love interest raise the kids? did he raise them? Rey would have been more interesting if she was a "nobody", the fact that she's a Palpatine just seems forced and lazy
* Rey and Kylo have had absolutely no romantic chemistry ever, their relationship is shown as sibling-like. The kiss was awkward, and totally random. But it's Disney, so is anyone really surprised by that?
* There was no reason for Leia and Kylo to die, why couldn't Rey just use her healing powers to stop it from happening?
* The back and forth of thinking people are dead and then boom all of a sudden they're not dead was exhausting. Chewey is dead! Nope. C3PO is dead! Nope. Kylo is dead! Nope. Rey is dead! Nope. They keep reviving each other until one of them couldn't anymore.
* A lightsaber is a sacred weapon only to be used by jedis in self defense. It's not a flashlight, it's not something you lend to your friend, and there were 2 more scenes of throwing them off of cliffs, did they learn nothing from TLJ? In the movie Kylo and Rey both threw their lightsabers to get rid of them because they didn't want to keep fighting or killing...... so basically admitting they don't have self control? What kind of jedi are they? A lightsaber is not a killing weapon, it's for self defense!
* The Rey v. Palpatine scene was so boring. Palpatine gets his full strength back, lightnings a whole fleet, and then is defeated in like 7 seconds... by his own lightning.... again
* Kylo turns good? Of course he does. There weren't a lot of obvious signs of struggle, and honestly that would have been a much better movie if it was just from his perspective, I wanted more Kylo, but he hardly had screen time and had a disappointingly little amount of lines
* Why bring back Han, Leia, and Luke just to kill them all off? Having the beloved three back together again is what was going to make the new trilogy so special, but they never got to reunite
* The Knights of Ren sucked! Just kind of hung around and then got killed by Pajama-boy Ben all at once in only seconds of fighting
* W. T. F. was that final Lando scene? "Where do you come from? Lets find out"..... Ummm what exactly did you mean by that?
* Palpatine has a new giant fleet? Why not just lightspeed something through all of them, because apparently you can do that now...
* Episode 8: Leia sends out a signal to all the systems asking for help... literally no one shows up---Episode 9: Lando flies around to all the systems asking for help.... literally everyone shows up. Not an inconsistency I just thought it was humorous, haha!
* What did Finn want to tell Rey? They ended the movie before they remembered to answer that. At this point JJ is probably just trolling us by leaving that unanswered
* Kylo should have killed Palpatine, to at least be somewhat consistent with "I will finish what you started"
* Where was Anakin? Did he forget how to force ghost himself? Obviously didn't care enough about the resistance. Show us Hayden!
* Luke's lightsaber just duct taped back together and it's as good as new?
* A lot of this movie's purpose had to do with Rey's identity. "Be who you are, Rey"... cut to the end of the movie... "I'm Rey Skywalker." Nope! you literally just learned that you're a Palpatine, nice try though
* Leia should have died in TLJ... the unused footage was kind of creepy
* It's pretty obvious that the trilogy wasn't planned out, there is no comprehensive storyline. What the trilogy is about is still a mystery to me
* The pace of the first 30 minutes was super rapid, and then didn't stay consistent, they just kind of pasted scenes together but who cares, it's cool if you have a lightsaber out, right?
* Poe can't catch a break for the 3rd movie in a row, just for comic relief too
* In my opinion the best thing about the trilogy and especially ROS was the force connection that Rey and Kylo had, what they were able to do (communicate remotely, transfer objects to help each other, feel what the other is feeling, etc) was really interesting and I loved it. All of that ruined by the stupid meaningless kiss.
Surely there will be people that love this movie, and I will never understand how they can look past all the above mentioned. RIP Star Wars, sorry you had to end like this.
The acting, the visuals, the effects, the amount of lightsaber screen time, racial diversity, and obviously John Williams' score, were outstanding.
Here's what I didn't like:
* George Lucas confirmed that Palpatine had died long before Disney, the whole purpose of the first 6 films was that Anakin Skywalker was to grow up and defeat the sith to restore balance, which he did. And then this movie reversed that entirely
* No introductory entrance scene from Palpatine, it's just thrown into the opening crawl that he's still alive....
* Rey has healing powers? RIP Qui Gonn and literally everyone that has died in Star Wars up until now
* Speaking of healing powers, that exact kind of power is what Anakin had spent most his adult life trying to acquire, everything he's done is to obtain more power and knowledge of the dark side, and then boom Rey just has it all of a sudden.... Anakin turned his back on everything he was taught in an effort to acquire healing powers. Rey is just walking around healing basilisks like it's nothing. So you don't need to turn to the dark side and kill billions of people? Light side jedis can heal all along? Anakin got pranked! Why didn't Yoda and Mace have healing powers or even know of its possibility?
* The convenience of the whole dagger thing really took me out of the movie, wait whats that dagger thing? 3-PO pls translate. "it contains the coordinates of the exact place we are searching for!" hmmmmm that was real freaking convenient wasn't it, also why did the dagger exist? Why would Palpatine make it and write exact coordinates on it?
* Apparently all it takes to defeat Palpatine is to have two lightsabers instead of one? You don't need years of training or wisdom...?... if only Yoda/Mace had known
* The fact that Palpatine was able to conceive means he was able to feel love at some point in his life........ did he have a love interest raise the kids? did he raise them? Rey would have been more interesting if she was a "nobody", the fact that she's a Palpatine just seems forced and lazy
* Rey and Kylo have had absolutely no romantic chemistry ever, their relationship is shown as sibling-like. The kiss was awkward, and totally random. But it's Disney, so is anyone really surprised by that?
* There was no reason for Leia and Kylo to die, why couldn't Rey just use her healing powers to stop it from happening?
* The back and forth of thinking people are dead and then boom all of a sudden they're not dead was exhausting. Chewey is dead! Nope. C3PO is dead! Nope. Kylo is dead! Nope. Rey is dead! Nope. They keep reviving each other until one of them couldn't anymore.
* A lightsaber is a sacred weapon only to be used by jedis in self defense. It's not a flashlight, it's not something you lend to your friend, and there were 2 more scenes of throwing them off of cliffs, did they learn nothing from TLJ? In the movie Kylo and Rey both threw their lightsabers to get rid of them because they didn't want to keep fighting or killing...... so basically admitting they don't have self control? What kind of jedi are they? A lightsaber is not a killing weapon, it's for self defense!
* The Rey v. Palpatine scene was so boring. Palpatine gets his full strength back, lightnings a whole fleet, and then is defeated in like 7 seconds... by his own lightning.... again
* Kylo turns good? Of course he does. There weren't a lot of obvious signs of struggle, and honestly that would have been a much better movie if it was just from his perspective, I wanted more Kylo, but he hardly had screen time and had a disappointingly little amount of lines
* Why bring back Han, Leia, and Luke just to kill them all off? Having the beloved three back together again is what was going to make the new trilogy so special, but they never got to reunite
* The Knights of Ren sucked! Just kind of hung around and then got killed by Pajama-boy Ben all at once in only seconds of fighting
* W. T. F. was that final Lando scene? "Where do you come from? Lets find out"..... Ummm what exactly did you mean by that?
* Palpatine has a new giant fleet? Why not just lightspeed something through all of them, because apparently you can do that now...
* Episode 8: Leia sends out a signal to all the systems asking for help... literally no one shows up---Episode 9: Lando flies around to all the systems asking for help.... literally everyone shows up. Not an inconsistency I just thought it was humorous, haha!
* What did Finn want to tell Rey? They ended the movie before they remembered to answer that. At this point JJ is probably just trolling us by leaving that unanswered
* Kylo should have killed Palpatine, to at least be somewhat consistent with "I will finish what you started"
* Where was Anakin? Did he forget how to force ghost himself? Obviously didn't care enough about the resistance. Show us Hayden!
* Luke's lightsaber just duct taped back together and it's as good as new?
* A lot of this movie's purpose had to do with Rey's identity. "Be who you are, Rey"... cut to the end of the movie... "I'm Rey Skywalker." Nope! you literally just learned that you're a Palpatine, nice try though
* Leia should have died in TLJ... the unused footage was kind of creepy
* It's pretty obvious that the trilogy wasn't planned out, there is no comprehensive storyline. What the trilogy is about is still a mystery to me
* The pace of the first 30 minutes was super rapid, and then didn't stay consistent, they just kind of pasted scenes together but who cares, it's cool if you have a lightsaber out, right?
* Poe can't catch a break for the 3rd movie in a row, just for comic relief too
* In my opinion the best thing about the trilogy and especially ROS was the force connection that Rey and Kylo had, what they were able to do (communicate remotely, transfer objects to help each other, feel what the other is feeling, etc) was really interesting and I loved it. All of that ruined by the stupid meaningless kiss.
Surely there will be people that love this movie, and I will never understand how they can look past all the above mentioned. RIP Star Wars, sorry you had to end like this.
From One Star Wars FAN to Another
bravos-7537020 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
There are two ways to watch this film. You can read the negative reviews and go in the theater with preconceived notions. Or, what I would suggest, go into the theater with an open mind. The choice is yours.
Honestly, it took some time for me to get into the story of this film. I tried getting in the zone, but it didn't seem to click. But then, around 30ish minutes into the movie, it clicked. I'm not saying that the first half hour was bad, I'm simply saying it was hard to grasp at first. The cinematography was beautiful, the score by John Williams was beautiful, and the story was incredible. It might take time to get in the zone, but when you arrive, it feels like the first time you saw Episode 4. Star Wars.
The story is so complex it will take a while, and a few more viewings, for me to completely grasp everything that happened. And that's not a bad thing. The story ties the entire saga together. How you may ask? Simple. Emperor Palpatine. From The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine is the embodiment of the dark side. Be it through his body or those of others. To see Ben Solo and Rey come together to finally defeat Palpatine is simply incredible.
"But Rey wasn't in the originals or the prequels. So why does she and Ben get to defeat the emperor?" Rey was created by Palpatine. She's his granddaughter. Ben was the son of Leia, who is the son of Anakin who was created by Palpatine. So in the end, Palpatine was defeated by his own corruption. Good always wins. Light Always removes the darkness.
Cameos. Boy there were some good ones. Seeing Harrison Ford Return as Han Solo was amazing. Watching Denis Lawson (Name spelled correctly) as Wedge was incredible. Mark Hamill, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan McGregor, Alec Guinness, Frank Oz, and Liam Neeson reprising their roles through voice acting tied it all together.
I liked the movie. There were certainly things I didn't like about it. But the thing that tied everything together was the score. John Williams is a musical master. His score in the movie was purely incredible. As George Lucas once said about the prequels, "It's like poetry... It rhymes," is a true statement. The music is incredible.
Go give the film a shot. If you don't like it, that's ok. If you do like it, that's ok too.
Honestly, it took some time for me to get into the story of this film. I tried getting in the zone, but it didn't seem to click. But then, around 30ish minutes into the movie, it clicked. I'm not saying that the first half hour was bad, I'm simply saying it was hard to grasp at first. The cinematography was beautiful, the score by John Williams was beautiful, and the story was incredible. It might take time to get in the zone, but when you arrive, it feels like the first time you saw Episode 4. Star Wars.
The story is so complex it will take a while, and a few more viewings, for me to completely grasp everything that happened. And that's not a bad thing. The story ties the entire saga together. How you may ask? Simple. Emperor Palpatine. From The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine is the embodiment of the dark side. Be it through his body or those of others. To see Ben Solo and Rey come together to finally defeat Palpatine is simply incredible.
"But Rey wasn't in the originals or the prequels. So why does she and Ben get to defeat the emperor?" Rey was created by Palpatine. She's his granddaughter. Ben was the son of Leia, who is the son of Anakin who was created by Palpatine. So in the end, Palpatine was defeated by his own corruption. Good always wins. Light Always removes the darkness.
Cameos. Boy there were some good ones. Seeing Harrison Ford Return as Han Solo was amazing. Watching Denis Lawson (Name spelled correctly) as Wedge was incredible. Mark Hamill, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan McGregor, Alec Guinness, Frank Oz, and Liam Neeson reprising their roles through voice acting tied it all together.
I liked the movie. There were certainly things I didn't like about it. But the thing that tied everything together was the score. John Williams is a musical master. His score in the movie was purely incredible. As George Lucas once said about the prequels, "It's like poetry... It rhymes," is a true statement. The music is incredible.
Go give the film a shot. If you don't like it, that's ok. If you do like it, that's ok too.
A solid 7
moge-8325927 December 2019
Oh well
BandSAboutMovies20 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Three movies in to the final part of what is being called the Skywalker Saga and I have to confess: worse than not knowing anything about these new characters -- Poe Dameron, Finn and Rey -- I honestly don't care about them. They're ciphers that we only know the barest of things about. Why does Finn have such an affinity for his friends? Why should we care a lick about Poe when he's proven to be too headstrong and willing to leave people behind, yet has nothing redeeming to make up for it? And Rey has every single skill of the Jedi near-instantly, almost a way too perfect character to be true.
Don't tell me I have to read the other books or watch the shows or do my research. Don't tell me that the old films in the Star Wars saga didn't come out as often or perhaps we cared too much about them. I sat -- well, slept, I'll be perfectly honest -- through this too loud and too much installment and I have to tell you my most honest review: Yeah, alright.
I don't go to blockbusters to walk away saying, "Yeah, alright."
SPOILER WARNING
Obviously, everything after this will contain massive spoilers. You have been warned.
The first critical error the film makes is by telling us that a secret message has caused a stir in the galaxy: the Emperor is alive. You know, instead of a scroll, perhaps this event -- probably the most important thing that's happened in all three of these post Return of the Jedi films, could have been shown to us so we could grasp just how mindblowing it is. Nope. It's in words on the screen. The dead speak! This is lazy filmmaking.
Kylo Ren (Adam Driver, who isn't howling in a bar or eating ass in this one) obtains a Sith Wayfinder device and travels to the planet Exegol, where the Emperor is recharging. It turns out that everything evil in the past few films has come from Palpatine, including Snoke who is just a clone. Snoke is the most infuriating character in these films, another character who really has no motivation and no reason to exist other than being yet another Star Wars villain set up to be an undefeatable villain only to, you know, by cut in half. See: Darth Maul, General Grievous, Count Dooku.
So the Emperor does what has never been done before. He just plain conjures up a million or so Star Destroyers on a planet that has constant darkness and lightning. He tells Kylo to find Rey, who is studying to be a Jedi with General Leia Organa Solo (Carrie Fisher), who is more Force-sensitive than a Jedi, you know, until this movie, which has a CGI cut scene that looks like, well, a video game cut scene that shows her training with Luke and realizing that she's going to die and not complete her journey but someone else will. Because man, Star Wars is kind of like Catholicism for people who'd rather have Carlos Casteneda instead of John the Baptist.
There's also a spy in the First Order, a subplot that changes nothing in the film other than to remind you that General Hux and Ben Solo probably had a tempestuous affair at one point and there's a thin line between love and hate.
Rey, Poe, Finn, Chewbacca, BB-8 and C-3PO head out for Passanna to meet Lando Calrissian while R2-D2 stays with Leia in a military base. Soon, Kylo Ben Solo and the Knights of Ren show up just as Rey discovers a Sith dagger than C-3PO's programming forbids him to read. Why? Is it because he was built by Anakin Skywalker? Nah -- it's just another dangling "We're going to kill off another beloved character" tease and even when they wipe out the golden droid's memory, it comes back so quickly and easily, you wonder why they even teased this moment of sadness.
I also have no idea why the Knights of Ren are important other than they will make cool looking toys and fat dudes will dress like them and bump into me at conventions.
Speaking of teasing the death of a major character -- Rey uses Force Lightning to accidentally kill Chewbacca, who died way back in the book Vector Prime before the books were no longer part of the real Universe. But yeah, Chewbacca survives anyway. Seriously, they should have called this movie Star Wars: Let's with Chewbacca. The dude gets tortured, stripped, Rey uses his gun, one of his best friends dies and oh yeah, he had to be in this movie.
Zorii Bliss (Keri Russell, who did Alias with J.J. Abrams) is in this too. She's a masked smuggler who had something of a relationship at one point with Poe but they never kissed, which is pretty much par for Star Wars romance. She is not Zam Wesell, so don't get that confused. Honestly, her scene about wanting to leave behind the planet Kijimi is about as emotionally resonant as this movie gets.
Turns out that Chewbacca is still alive, so there's a failed rescue mission on a Star Destroyer that leads to a nice scene where Rey and Kylo have a lightsaber battle between their two worlds. That's when we learn that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter, who tried to King Herrod her as a child, as he feared her power.
So hey, why don't we go back to Endor. Do we have to? Yes, we do. That's where we meet a whole bunch of other Stormtroopers who got tired of missing every shot and took off their suits and became dudes who ride yaks. Their leader, Jannah, is not Enfys Nest from Solo: A Star Wars Story, despite similar animal mounts and markings. She and Finn quickly become friends but there's not even a hint of romance.
Also: remember when Rose Tico was such a big deal in the last movie? Yeah, neither do the filmmakers.
There's a cool scene where the second Death Star is in the giant black waves of Endor and Kylo and Rey have another lightsaber battle. Remember when lightsaber battles were rad and you couldn't wait for them, way back before Yoda zipped all around doing backflips and suddenly, you wondered how and why lightsabers could be boring? Yeah.
Man, anyways, Leia dies reaching out through the Force to her son, who gets impaled by Rey but then healed by her before she runs to the Emperor's world to kill the old man, because you know, that's what he wants. He came back from the dead so the child he sent away because he feared she would kill him can kill him. Motivations are super important in Star Wars.
Nearly everyone who Hasbro will sell to idiots like me dies. Star Wars has a fetish for hands getting chopped off, British accents, wipe transitions and killing off fat spaceship pilots.
Luckily, Rey and Kylo fight back, but then we learn another motivation for the Emperor: he wanted to leech their youth and become strong again. So, if Rey had just killed him, did this second plan even matter? Well, he's every Sith and Rey ends up being every Jedi and they battle and she ends up killing him. However, because she turns his Force lightning against him, she isn't killing him like he wanted and this killing is OK because Star Wars.
We end up back on Tatooine where Rey goes to hide the last two lightsabers and claim the name of Skywalker. Then we see Leia looking like the Virgin Mary and Luke looking like some dude who'd go to a comic convention to meet Mark Hamill as ghosts.
Question: Remember when it was a big deal that Qui-Gon Jinn didn't turn into a Force spirit and disappear and we were gonna get answers on that one? Yeah. Well, both Leia -- not a Jedi -- and Kylo Ben Solo disappear when they die. Of course, he kisses Rey first. And his dad shows up and calls back the "I know" line because this movie is fan service from frame one, bringing back holo chess when it's not sledgehammering plot points and deus ex machina into your feeble brainstem.
This movie is a lot like sugary cereal. Sugary cereal is real good, except for how you feel sick after eating multiple bowls.
Also: I kind of hate that new green robot D-O who literally talks like a Donald Trump tweet, saying "Sad!" when a scene is upsetting. We get it. We know it's sad. You don't have to tell us.
The movie also feels like one that should pause and flash: CHECK THIS OUT! Like the tie-fighter parked next to an x-wing. We get it. We get the symbolism. Or when Wedge Antilles shows up, that kind of stuff is only for dudes like me that knew the names and call signs of every pilot. And yes, Wedge is Red Two. I was also a virgin until well into my twenties, thank you very much.
So what did I like about the movie? I dug those yak creatures that they rode on the deck of the Star Destroyers and yes, I know they're called orbaks but I'm going to keep on calling them yaks. And I adored Lando basically picking up Jannah and saying, "Let's find out where you're from." You know he's making her crosseyed in the back of the Millennium Falcon right now while Nien Nunb wonders why there's a sock on the door. I also liked the little dude named Babu Frik who wiped out C-3PO's mind. And I kinda dug the kintsugi look of Kylo Ren's new mask.
Yeah, it was also nice that we saw the first same sex kiss in Star Wars between Commander D'acy and an unnamed character that will surely get a name and a Hasbro San Diego Comic-Con two-pack release that will sell for many times the original price on eBay.
Look -- I'm not going to tell you what to like and be a gatekeeper. Love what you love, enjoy what you enjoy and spend your money where you want. That said, I spent a good chunk of my life loving Star Wars and know more about Dengar than many of the extended family members. I know -- and care -- next to nothing about anything in this film. There are people who are going to go see it a few hundred times and get the sugar rush that this film is and love it because it's Star Wars. Again, being a fan of the saga is a lot like being Catholic -- you know the motions, you go through them but after a while, you question why you just don't feel the same after Mass.
Don't tell me I have to read the other books or watch the shows or do my research. Don't tell me that the old films in the Star Wars saga didn't come out as often or perhaps we cared too much about them. I sat -- well, slept, I'll be perfectly honest -- through this too loud and too much installment and I have to tell you my most honest review: Yeah, alright.
I don't go to blockbusters to walk away saying, "Yeah, alright."
SPOILER WARNING
Obviously, everything after this will contain massive spoilers. You have been warned.
The first critical error the film makes is by telling us that a secret message has caused a stir in the galaxy: the Emperor is alive. You know, instead of a scroll, perhaps this event -- probably the most important thing that's happened in all three of these post Return of the Jedi films, could have been shown to us so we could grasp just how mindblowing it is. Nope. It's in words on the screen. The dead speak! This is lazy filmmaking.
Kylo Ren (Adam Driver, who isn't howling in a bar or eating ass in this one) obtains a Sith Wayfinder device and travels to the planet Exegol, where the Emperor is recharging. It turns out that everything evil in the past few films has come from Palpatine, including Snoke who is just a clone. Snoke is the most infuriating character in these films, another character who really has no motivation and no reason to exist other than being yet another Star Wars villain set up to be an undefeatable villain only to, you know, by cut in half. See: Darth Maul, General Grievous, Count Dooku.
So the Emperor does what has never been done before. He just plain conjures up a million or so Star Destroyers on a planet that has constant darkness and lightning. He tells Kylo to find Rey, who is studying to be a Jedi with General Leia Organa Solo (Carrie Fisher), who is more Force-sensitive than a Jedi, you know, until this movie, which has a CGI cut scene that looks like, well, a video game cut scene that shows her training with Luke and realizing that she's going to die and not complete her journey but someone else will. Because man, Star Wars is kind of like Catholicism for people who'd rather have Carlos Casteneda instead of John the Baptist.
There's also a spy in the First Order, a subplot that changes nothing in the film other than to remind you that General Hux and Ben Solo probably had a tempestuous affair at one point and there's a thin line between love and hate.
Rey, Poe, Finn, Chewbacca, BB-8 and C-3PO head out for Passanna to meet Lando Calrissian while R2-D2 stays with Leia in a military base. Soon, Kylo Ben Solo and the Knights of Ren show up just as Rey discovers a Sith dagger than C-3PO's programming forbids him to read. Why? Is it because he was built by Anakin Skywalker? Nah -- it's just another dangling "We're going to kill off another beloved character" tease and even when they wipe out the golden droid's memory, it comes back so quickly and easily, you wonder why they even teased this moment of sadness.
I also have no idea why the Knights of Ren are important other than they will make cool looking toys and fat dudes will dress like them and bump into me at conventions.
Speaking of teasing the death of a major character -- Rey uses Force Lightning to accidentally kill Chewbacca, who died way back in the book Vector Prime before the books were no longer part of the real Universe. But yeah, Chewbacca survives anyway. Seriously, they should have called this movie Star Wars: Let's with Chewbacca. The dude gets tortured, stripped, Rey uses his gun, one of his best friends dies and oh yeah, he had to be in this movie.
Zorii Bliss (Keri Russell, who did Alias with J.J. Abrams) is in this too. She's a masked smuggler who had something of a relationship at one point with Poe but they never kissed, which is pretty much par for Star Wars romance. She is not Zam Wesell, so don't get that confused. Honestly, her scene about wanting to leave behind the planet Kijimi is about as emotionally resonant as this movie gets.
Turns out that Chewbacca is still alive, so there's a failed rescue mission on a Star Destroyer that leads to a nice scene where Rey and Kylo have a lightsaber battle between their two worlds. That's when we learn that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter, who tried to King Herrod her as a child, as he feared her power.
So hey, why don't we go back to Endor. Do we have to? Yes, we do. That's where we meet a whole bunch of other Stormtroopers who got tired of missing every shot and took off their suits and became dudes who ride yaks. Their leader, Jannah, is not Enfys Nest from Solo: A Star Wars Story, despite similar animal mounts and markings. She and Finn quickly become friends but there's not even a hint of romance.
Also: remember when Rose Tico was such a big deal in the last movie? Yeah, neither do the filmmakers.
There's a cool scene where the second Death Star is in the giant black waves of Endor and Kylo and Rey have another lightsaber battle. Remember when lightsaber battles were rad and you couldn't wait for them, way back before Yoda zipped all around doing backflips and suddenly, you wondered how and why lightsabers could be boring? Yeah.
Man, anyways, Leia dies reaching out through the Force to her son, who gets impaled by Rey but then healed by her before she runs to the Emperor's world to kill the old man, because you know, that's what he wants. He came back from the dead so the child he sent away because he feared she would kill him can kill him. Motivations are super important in Star Wars.
Nearly everyone who Hasbro will sell to idiots like me dies. Star Wars has a fetish for hands getting chopped off, British accents, wipe transitions and killing off fat spaceship pilots.
Luckily, Rey and Kylo fight back, but then we learn another motivation for the Emperor: he wanted to leech their youth and become strong again. So, if Rey had just killed him, did this second plan even matter? Well, he's every Sith and Rey ends up being every Jedi and they battle and she ends up killing him. However, because she turns his Force lightning against him, she isn't killing him like he wanted and this killing is OK because Star Wars.
We end up back on Tatooine where Rey goes to hide the last two lightsabers and claim the name of Skywalker. Then we see Leia looking like the Virgin Mary and Luke looking like some dude who'd go to a comic convention to meet Mark Hamill as ghosts.
Question: Remember when it was a big deal that Qui-Gon Jinn didn't turn into a Force spirit and disappear and we were gonna get answers on that one? Yeah. Well, both Leia -- not a Jedi -- and Kylo Ben Solo disappear when they die. Of course, he kisses Rey first. And his dad shows up and calls back the "I know" line because this movie is fan service from frame one, bringing back holo chess when it's not sledgehammering plot points and deus ex machina into your feeble brainstem.
This movie is a lot like sugary cereal. Sugary cereal is real good, except for how you feel sick after eating multiple bowls.
Also: I kind of hate that new green robot D-O who literally talks like a Donald Trump tweet, saying "Sad!" when a scene is upsetting. We get it. We know it's sad. You don't have to tell us.
The movie also feels like one that should pause and flash: CHECK THIS OUT! Like the tie-fighter parked next to an x-wing. We get it. We get the symbolism. Or when Wedge Antilles shows up, that kind of stuff is only for dudes like me that knew the names and call signs of every pilot. And yes, Wedge is Red Two. I was also a virgin until well into my twenties, thank you very much.
So what did I like about the movie? I dug those yak creatures that they rode on the deck of the Star Destroyers and yes, I know they're called orbaks but I'm going to keep on calling them yaks. And I adored Lando basically picking up Jannah and saying, "Let's find out where you're from." You know he's making her crosseyed in the back of the Millennium Falcon right now while Nien Nunb wonders why there's a sock on the door. I also liked the little dude named Babu Frik who wiped out C-3PO's mind. And I kinda dug the kintsugi look of Kylo Ren's new mask.
Yeah, it was also nice that we saw the first same sex kiss in Star Wars between Commander D'acy and an unnamed character that will surely get a name and a Hasbro San Diego Comic-Con two-pack release that will sell for many times the original price on eBay.
Look -- I'm not going to tell you what to like and be a gatekeeper. Love what you love, enjoy what you enjoy and spend your money where you want. That said, I spent a good chunk of my life loving Star Wars and know more about Dengar than many of the extended family members. I know -- and care -- next to nothing about anything in this film. There are people who are going to go see it a few hundred times and get the sugar rush that this film is and love it because it's Star Wars. Again, being a fan of the saga is a lot like being Catholic -- you know the motions, you go through them but after a while, you question why you just don't feel the same after Mass.
I still love Star Wars
schuelererik22 December 2019
Let me say this... In no way is The Rise of Skywalker a perfect movie, it has its flaws. But that doesn't change the fact that I loved it. Yes it has tons of fan service. Yes most of the events were predictable. And still... It was everything I want Star Wars to be. Funny, exciting, a bit odd sometimes but with a group of loveable characters at it's core. Say what you will, but I loved Star Wars since I was 6 years old and this new movie just made me feel like a very happy kid again.
A Good conclusion to the trilogy
satyam-8874625 December 2019
Glad I didn't listen to the negative reviews
Gith1322 December 2019
Not terrible. Not legendary.
Elisej9319 December 2019
You should probably disregard any review that gives this a 1/10 or a 10/10. It is not a terrible movie, nor is it legendary. For the average movie-goer I suspect it will fall somewhere between 6/10-8/10. Highly enjoyable in terms of visuals and plot twists, but not enough to stick around with you for years to come like the original trilogy.
Enjoyable film slandered by an entitled community
tamingatche9119 December 2019
I'm sick and tried of bad reviews for what isn't a bad movie given by people who only highlight the bad points. It feels like people believe they're entitled to a movie with a story told exactly how they want it and so refuse to enjoy it. The 1 star reviews are not from true Star Wars fans in my opinion.
Star Wars storytelling has never been incredible or even that original. The whole sagas story is as old as time, one of good vs evil. Star Wars has always been fun, sometimes dark and entertaining with a clear message of finding hope in the darkest of times. This movie was just that.
I'm more than happy with this latest entry from the Galaxy Far Far Away
Star Wars storytelling has never been incredible or even that original. The whole sagas story is as old as time, one of good vs evil. Star Wars has always been fun, sometimes dark and entertaining with a clear message of finding hope in the darkest of times. This movie was just that.
I'm more than happy with this latest entry from the Galaxy Far Far Away
A cinematic disaster that wholly fails to justify it's own existence and that of the trilogy as a whole..
Ronan_Shepherd7 September 2022
A tragic culmination of the flaws of the previous 2 films. Whether due to his own lack of imagination, studio meddling, or the previous abomination that Rian Johnson directed, JJ Abrams has wholly and utterly failed to deliver a satisfying end to this abysmal trilogy.
The storyline is a nonsensical mashup of bad original concepts and stolen ideas, the writing itself is hamfisted, and the climax is a laughable double ex-machina. The main plot point of the film is directly lifted from a 1991 comic series call Dark Empire, except the film did it badly. It comes off like a fan fiction story with a hollywood budget.
Any praise I could lay upon the actors themselves was wasted by the director and producers. Ultimately this film (and the Trilogy as a whole) is confusing, unsatisfying, anti-climactic, and wildly inconsistent with the original 6 films.
The storyline is a nonsensical mashup of bad original concepts and stolen ideas, the writing itself is hamfisted, and the climax is a laughable double ex-machina. The main plot point of the film is directly lifted from a 1991 comic series call Dark Empire, except the film did it badly. It comes off like a fan fiction story with a hollywood budget.
Any praise I could lay upon the actors themselves was wasted by the director and producers. Ultimately this film (and the Trilogy as a whole) is confusing, unsatisfying, anti-climactic, and wildly inconsistent with the original 6 films.
I just don't get it
gtlargo27 December 2019
I don't understand how the story was a mess, I followed it just fine.
I don't understand how it undoes things from the last movie.
I don't understand how call backs and fan service is a bad thing, I enjoyed them all and could picture many scenes across the series.
I watched it a second time last night and still enjoyed it. As a casual fan that has watched these movies since I was a kid, I very much enjoyed it. Maybe I'm just a sap for the hero's journey and the beats that go with good against evil... I don't hyper analyze.
The movie was fun and the story entertaining. Isn't that the point of going to see cinema created for entertainment?
Nice inspiration and solid piece of graphic art, but no story ...
collak5 January 2020
... Disney make movie for money. SW IX - TROS will be a solid source of them. If you are looking for inspiration or examples of excellent graphic art here is fantastic one.
I was very happy that I took my kids (5y and 8y) with me, because they know everything about that universe. There were able to explain a lot of things, because I was bored whole time. There is very bad story, boring characters with superpowers. In some screens (when I wasn't sleeping) I was very confused if I am not watching another Avengers. Yes... Stormtroopers have still problems with aiming, but our main characters like Ray and Kyle are more powerful than all Sith and Jedi's in whole history of galaxy. They are able to stop whole starship, blasters, swords and even maybe time... WTF??? Will be there any Thanos finger snap???
Locations, scenes and structures are iconic, fantastic, orgastic, but same pictures you can find on Google for free...
Problem with many scenes is that there are not believable. After final credits I was happy that there will be no more movies... My sons were crying because their heroes Kylo Ren and Darth Vader are gone.
who will pay to rise them once again???
I was very happy that I took my kids (5y and 8y) with me, because they know everything about that universe. There were able to explain a lot of things, because I was bored whole time. There is very bad story, boring characters with superpowers. In some screens (when I wasn't sleeping) I was very confused if I am not watching another Avengers. Yes... Stormtroopers have still problems with aiming, but our main characters like Ray and Kyle are more powerful than all Sith and Jedi's in whole history of galaxy. They are able to stop whole starship, blasters, swords and even maybe time... WTF??? Will be there any Thanos finger snap???
Locations, scenes and structures are iconic, fantastic, orgastic, but same pictures you can find on Google for free...
Problem with many scenes is that there are not believable. After final credits I was happy that there will be no more movies... My sons were crying because their heroes Kylo Ren and Darth Vader are gone.
who will pay to rise them once again???
The RISE (???) of Skywalker
danielkanemusic5 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The good:
Cinematography
Music
The bad: No storyline. Palpatine came back somehow, was confronted by Rey and died again. It took her less than 2 minutes to finish him in the end all because dead Jedi suddenly decided to talk to her, comfort her she wasn't alone.
The ugly: Poe's speech before going into battle reminded me of every medieval movie I can remember. Then, 2 minutes later I saw a bunch of horses running across the deck of a Star Destroyer, freakin HORSES!
Rey dies (why??) then Ben resurrects her (how??), they kiss (why??) and then he dies (vanishes), how&why??
The RISE of Skywalker?? The 2 last remaining Skywalkers DIE!! There is NO Skywalker left.
PLOT-BLACK-HOLES
I remember downloading the storyline of all 9 chapters 16 years ago. The final trilogy was supposed to be about Leia & Han's kids, Luke's kids, a cloned version of Luke, a cloned version of Vader/Anakin and Luke eventually becoming the most powerful Jedi of all time after finally defeating the Sith in their ancient temple. The entire trilogy felt mystic, dark and after reading all 9 chapters the final 3 were undoubtedly going to be a "save the best for last" scenario. I am so disappointed. Star Wars is dead. Count me out.
The bad: No storyline. Palpatine came back somehow, was confronted by Rey and died again. It took her less than 2 minutes to finish him in the end all because dead Jedi suddenly decided to talk to her, comfort her she wasn't alone.
The ugly: Poe's speech before going into battle reminded me of every medieval movie I can remember. Then, 2 minutes later I saw a bunch of horses running across the deck of a Star Destroyer, freakin HORSES!
Rey dies (why??) then Ben resurrects her (how??), they kiss (why??) and then he dies (vanishes), how&why??
The RISE of Skywalker?? The 2 last remaining Skywalkers DIE!! There is NO Skywalker left.
PLOT-BLACK-HOLES
I remember downloading the storyline of all 9 chapters 16 years ago. The final trilogy was supposed to be about Leia & Han's kids, Luke's kids, a cloned version of Luke, a cloned version of Vader/Anakin and Luke eventually becoming the most powerful Jedi of all time after finally defeating the Sith in their ancient temple. The entire trilogy felt mystic, dark and after reading all 9 chapters the final 3 were undoubtedly going to be a "save the best for last" scenario. I am so disappointed. Star Wars is dead. Count me out.
Better than a lot of people think
jmills-6536517 March 2020
I've been reading some of the reviews of this film on idmb. I was pretty taken aback by how many negative reviews there are I mean a LOT if bad reviews a lot of 2 and 3 out of 10! Really? You people thought it was that bad? Well I liked it it's definitely the best of the trilogy. While I agree this trilogy has been pretty disappointing, I believe this film stands out. It was a really inventive storyline and the performance of the actors was emotionally charged. Good Acton scenes as well. As far as these really bad reviews, you people seriously need to lighten up you define the phrase "tough crowd"
Up to this point I've strongly disliked the sequels...
messerschmitt-510-49474622 December 2019
The Rise of Skywalker was by far the best movie of the new sequel trilogy. I have a difficult time understanding certain reviews and the general rating of this movie. My recommendation is go and see it, it's the movie that while being imperfect and flawed in certain areas, redeems the sequel trilogy and brings a dignified end to the Skywalker Saga.
First thing I must say is we get the answers! Finally we know the story behind the First Order, Snoke and Rey. We get to know how the certain antagonist was involved in all this and what was the goal of the evil forces. Dammit, even The Last Jedi makes more sense now! The Rise of Skywalker coresponds very well with the Return Of The Jedi but at no point is an ordinary copy paste like it was with The Force Awakens.
"Visually stunning" is a phrase we can say about all the films of the sequel trilogy, but here we see the absolute perfection. The definition of how a space opera movie should look like. The planet that's so important in the plot is simply incredible. All the final sequences inside the ancient temple were overwhelming. Dark and even scary. Abrams did a great job here, we get to feel what it means to deal with the Sith. The final battle was a sort of a typical finale for Star Wars films, but with a few twists. At one hilariously over-the-top moment I actually laughed, but somehow it was not a bad thing, I wasn't mad at this.
About the flaws. The plot is progressing very fast so one needs to be very focused. It's a material for a whole trilogy. It's almost as if Abrams finally understood what needed to be done and tried to fix everything with one movie. He sort of did fix everything, but at a cost. Maybe at least a half an hour more would help to slow down the tempo and make the movie more pleasant to watch. The other thing I disliked was all the new ideas about the Force. We all remember the horrible idea of midichlorians from Episode I. Well here it's not as bad, but controversial at least. Here I understand the criticism, though IMHO all this doesn't ruin the movie.
The final question remains to be asked. Why only now? Why did we have to endure mediocrity of TFA and TLJ? Ideas from this movie, well explored and with better storytelling would make an awesome new trilogy. Anyway, The Rise of Skywalker rewarded me for patience and all the feelings of embarassment and distaste I've had during the previous films.
First thing I must say is we get the answers! Finally we know the story behind the First Order, Snoke and Rey. We get to know how the certain antagonist was involved in all this and what was the goal of the evil forces. Dammit, even The Last Jedi makes more sense now! The Rise of Skywalker coresponds very well with the Return Of The Jedi but at no point is an ordinary copy paste like it was with The Force Awakens.
"Visually stunning" is a phrase we can say about all the films of the sequel trilogy, but here we see the absolute perfection. The definition of how a space opera movie should look like. The planet that's so important in the plot is simply incredible. All the final sequences inside the ancient temple were overwhelming. Dark and even scary. Abrams did a great job here, we get to feel what it means to deal with the Sith. The final battle was a sort of a typical finale for Star Wars films, but with a few twists. At one hilariously over-the-top moment I actually laughed, but somehow it was not a bad thing, I wasn't mad at this.
About the flaws. The plot is progressing very fast so one needs to be very focused. It's a material for a whole trilogy. It's almost as if Abrams finally understood what needed to be done and tried to fix everything with one movie. He sort of did fix everything, but at a cost. Maybe at least a half an hour more would help to slow down the tempo and make the movie more pleasant to watch. The other thing I disliked was all the new ideas about the Force. We all remember the horrible idea of midichlorians from Episode I. Well here it's not as bad, but controversial at least. Here I understand the criticism, though IMHO all this doesn't ruin the movie.
The final question remains to be asked. Why only now? Why did we have to endure mediocrity of TFA and TLJ? Ideas from this movie, well explored and with better storytelling would make an awesome new trilogy. Anyway, The Rise of Skywalker rewarded me for patience and all the feelings of embarassment and distaste I've had during the previous films.
Utter Garbage
Prichards123452 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
A hot mess of a movie, with terrible writing, dim acting and clunky direction.
J.J. Abrahams tried to fix the disaster that was the Last Jedi, but it comes across as a patchwork of drafts rather than a coherent whole. It also ruins Return of The Jedi, when it has Palpatine survive falling into the Death Star's reactor. Yeah, right.
Daisy Ridley fails at something! For a bit. Never fear, she'll be perfect again by the end. The men are just foils for the super strong confident women, and all hopeless.
A sad end to the Skywalker Saga. This makes The Phantom Menace look like A New Hope.
J.J. Abrahams tried to fix the disaster that was the Last Jedi, but it comes across as a patchwork of drafts rather than a coherent whole. It also ruins Return of The Jedi, when it has Palpatine survive falling into the Death Star's reactor. Yeah, right.
Daisy Ridley fails at something! For a bit. Never fear, she'll be perfect again by the end. The men are just foils for the super strong confident women, and all hopeless.
A sad end to the Skywalker Saga. This makes The Phantom Menace look like A New Hope.
Incompetence
EduardSR4 January 2020
I can't say I am a huge fan of Star Wars, I do like the movies, but never geeked out about them, I did watch all of them and in most part I enjoyed the story, the characters and the visuals.
But when it comes to TROS ... I felt like I was watching some cut scenes from a game, where you know the story is bad, the characters are superficial and bland but hey, you are there to play a game.
The amount of plot holes and patched scenes that lead to nowhere is alarming for a title like this.
Some things i liked were the kylo ren scenes, the actor did really well in portraying him, the visuals were top notch and the art team really shined, the music of course was great.
I think we are starting to replace talent and hard work with political views and woke mentality and in my opinion this is the death of art.
But when it comes to TROS ... I felt like I was watching some cut scenes from a game, where you know the story is bad, the characters are superficial and bland but hey, you are there to play a game.
The amount of plot holes and patched scenes that lead to nowhere is alarming for a title like this.
Some things i liked were the kylo ren scenes, the actor did really well in portraying him, the visuals were top notch and the art team really shined, the music of course was great.
I think we are starting to replace talent and hard work with political views and woke mentality and in my opinion this is the death of art.
Why do Star Wars fans hate Star Wars??
evalverdes19 December 2019
It's not George Lucas' vision. The main crew doesn't have the same chemistry has the original one. It has some loose ends...
This why it doesn't deserve 10/10.
It's the first (on the new trilogy) with a proper original story. TFA was like a remake of ANH and TLJ was a mix of moments of ROTJ and TESB. This one has its own idea, and it's a good one.
We can argue about some loose ends, for sure. But the story doesn't fail our expectations, it respects SW heritage and conflicts (the main one, the inner conflict to go down a dark path).
It's frantic and has amazing battles, fine light saber duels, it gives Rey a solid background.
There is a lot to like.
Forget about most reviews and enjoy!
Disregard all 1/10s
stef-5597419 December 2019
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