Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Took me a
few days to write this cause I was busy with Christmas. But its finally
here.
It's the
end of the Skywalker Saga, a more than forty year journey all geeks have
endured and enjoyed throughout while picking up more geeks on the way to fall
in love with this beloved franchise. If you dont know what I'm talking about,
I'm talking about Star Wars and The Rise of Skywalker also known as Episode 9,
is out now.
It's not only the final chapter of this sequel trilogy but 'The Final Word in The Skywalker Saga' according to Palpatine who conveniently returns in this sequel. Also, returning are your current favourite StarWars characters like Rey, Finn and Poe along with your favourite droid, BB-8 for one last crazy adventure. But ever since the trailer came out, we all wondered 'will The Rise of Skywalker live up to the hype and be able to finish this specific part of Star Wars and also end the saga altogether?'. Well in my opinion, the hype is worth it for its epic-conclusion-ness but there are some unfortunate mishaps that happened, during the movie and behind the scenes.
J.J Abrams returns to direct and co-write the threequel because 1) Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) was supposed to the direct but had a row with Kathleen Kennedy. So he pulled out. 2) they didn't want Rian Johnson, who directed The Last Jedi, because of what he did in that movie which I thought was good movie. ( Yes, people. I thought The Last Jedi was great. So, shut your traps)
Yes,
Abrams did do a good job directing The Force Awakens but for this movie, he had
to rectify errors that both he and Rian Johnson made in the previous movies for
the sake of fan service. Something I wish they didn't do. Force Awakens did
have fan service but it was excuted well. That's why it was good. The Last Jedi
didn't have fan service whatsoever which I thought was great because it seemed
new, original even. But no, everything that happened in The Last Jedi was
slammed by fans. The Laat Jedi became the most controversial Star Wars movie
ever.
So, this
movie. No doubt it is good. Not great but just good. I don't think it's one of
the best Star Wars movies but of course, it's way more enjoyable than the
prequel movies. But this movie makes the sequel trilogy crazy. Honestly, if you
now watch the sequel trilogy in its entirety, it's just seems like alot. The
three movies just seem like J.J Abrams and Rian Johnson trying to prove who's
the better Star Wars fan. The Rise of Skywalker practically is movie filled
with fan service. From the sudden return of Palpatine to the mirror scenes, its
just a rehash of the Return of the Jedi. Some people may like that but I didn't
I guess. I figured that like Avengers Endgame or Deathly Hallows Part 2, Rise
of Skywalker will give its version of a epic final battle but it ended up just
featuring instances of those two epic endings. You'd think that the movie that
invented the space opera genre would be able to make it's own final battle
but... 
Character
development completely ignores what the characters went through in the previous
movies. But they do in some ways just not enough. Rey is the star and deserved
to shine, but for the sake of her being the star, everybody else had to be
sidelined. Literally everyone. Finn's stormtrooper storyline was abruptly
executed and Poe apparently had a past before his resistance that apparently no
one knows about. The character development just left more plotholes while
resolving plotholes from other movies. Kylo Ren, for me, was the best character
in the sequel trilogy but his arc in this movie just seemed rushed like the
movie itself. It was cool when it came to Leia and how J.J used previous
footage and made the scenes and dialogue revolve around Leia's footage.
Although you know its not really her, they did their absolute best to make her part
of the movie.
Yes,
there are plotholes and YES, this Star Wars is flawed AF but it was still good
and the best scenes are incredibly goosebumpy. And you might also shed a tear
or two by the end, because this is yet another end of yet another era of Star
Wars... with this movie being the end of a legendary decade, Rise of Skywalker
fits alongside as the stories that define this decade.
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