Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker Review Initial reactions This movie is bad. A vomit sandwich of Star Wars that is more a Michael Bay movie then a star wars movie. As convoluted and confusing a plot as I have ever seen, especially for a star wars movie. Way too many new ideas, plot devices, force powers, and story arcs that I cannot list them all. Way too fast paced for a 2.5 hour movie. Cutting from scene to scene I felt like I was spinning in a Lunar module for the first 30mins of the movie. It all felt disingenious. That these characters that I was supposed to know for 3 movies were fake and going all their arcs were pointless and stupid. Really only 2 character arcs. Rey and Kylo. everyone else are just there. Not to mention pointless characters that offer no extra feeling to the movie. Final act was incredibly annoying, convoluted, rushed, and ruined everything I liked about star wars. I said before I didn’t care too much about the story, but hoped the space battles would be amazing. They were terrible. Editing like a michael bay movie I had no idea what was happening throughout the battle. The huge Rebel space fleet at the end was a giant middle finger to Gandalf and the ending to the Two Towers, and gave me literally no feelings whatsoever. So what was good about the movie? C-3PO’s comic relief. One of the bright spots of the movie as he was actually pretty funny and gave positive elements to an otherwise boring movie. Rey and Kylo fight on the Deathstar. Had emotional impact when Leia dies and Rey stabs Kylo with his lightsaber. Emotionally gripping and I felt it. Chewbacca dying. Emotional stab in the heart that this movie was desperately needing, also accompanied by Rey’s use of lighting hands that foreshadows her lineage. Ultimately taken back as we find Chewie is still alive. Rey and Kylo’s force bond being expanded on more and used for both of them to continue having these great dialouges with each other, and used at the end when Rey gives Kylo her lightsaber. Very powerful. The kiss. It actually worked and cemented both their arcs for the trilogy. They were bonded throughout and needed to have that to finally embrace the bond they have. I liked that Kylo died so that we didn’t have a cheesy ending where they are together and have little jedi-sith babies. Cause that would never come back to bite them. Chewie gets a medal. What didn’t work in the movie Palpatine’s return. No explanation for how he is there, some throw away lines about him being cloned, but really the movie was too rushed to have any real explanation. Pacing. The movie jumped from scene to scene way too quickly. I felt I was watching a 30minute tv show with how quickly everything was moving. I was just waiting for the scene where everyone slowed down and we took a minute to enjoy being in a star wars film. Basically it felt rushed. Like how the end of Game of Thrones was in which you could tell the creators just wants to finish the project and didn’t really care about the quality of the product. The whole ending battle scene was just space vomit that broke my heart. Nothing really matters anymore. Oh you thought Palpatine died securing Anakin’s arc and fulfilling his prophecy to balance the force, undone. Wow they killed Chewbacca how emotionally impactful, showing us that this is the end and Rey and the Rebellion will have to sacrifice those they love to save the galaxy, oh wait no just kidding he was on another transport. Damn Leia just sacraficed herself and essentially Kylo to save Ren, and now Rey made her darkest choice by killing Kylo and putting her on the path to the dark side. Oh wait no she had super healing powers and can just fix her mistake. I guess th
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