'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' is a bad movie and a miserable finale that serves no purpose other than to reassure fans of the original 'Star Wars' that they are still the 'chosen ones' of the pop culture galaxy.
isn’t just that it absolutely walks back a number of potent reveals and plot threads from the last movie, but rather that the 142-minute movie spends almost its entire running time retconning its predecessor and adding painfully conventional “plot twists” and patronizing reversals in the name of mollifying the fans who merely want to be reminded of the first three movies. It inflicts additional damage to the legacy of the first sixStar Wars’ darker real-world implications.
Things start promisingly enough, with a grim and visually dazzling sequence in which Kylo Ren kills his way to the location of a still-living Sheev Palpatine . The former Emperor promises command of countless newly created warships as long as Ren ends the Jedi order by killing Rey . Okay, fine, the Emperor’s back, but at least that reveal is done right off the bat.ride.
We then jump into a “go to the place and find the thing” adventure, and the filmmakers seem to think that the mere idea of Rey, Finn, Poe and Chewbacca on a journey together is in itself incredibly compelling. Alas, absent memorable dialogue and much in the way of honest interaction, plus two extraneous new characters seemingly meant to “no homo” Finn and Poe, the journey becomes about the destination. That destination is merely more arbitrary plot reveals.
is still the best!” fan bait. It’s that this is the only real reason this movie exists. It is focused on plot over character and is written with the “we got to stop that laser!” intelligence of a bad Saturday morning cartoon. When there already exists some very good kid-targeted
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