A Movie SCREAMING To Be Liked

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2019)

"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" knew what it was, a Star Wars movie and unlike "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", this movie has great fan service. It introduced interesting concepts into the franchise... a little to many. "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" was too caught up in trying to be liked that it forgot about more than half the ideas introduced. Paired with the feeling that there were several writers writing this movie and not communicating with each other at all, the dialogue was EXTREMELY cheesy. "My name is Rey... Rey Skywalker" "I am all the Sith! And I am all the JEDI" are just a couple examples of moments that tried too hard and in the end coming off as cheesy. There were moments of shock... but then shortly after it was all undone, for example Chewbacca and Kylo Ren's death.
The movie catches you right away by showing the iconic Emperor Palpatine and an action filled chase scene, tricking you into thinking you are about to watch an entertaining movie. The gang in the movie (Chewbacca, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron and C3PO) go from location to location searching for a map to Exegol (the planet where Emperor Palpatine has been hiding out) seeming more like a video game plot rather than a movie. During the whole journey for the protagonists Finn said he had something to tell Rey, they bring up the fact he needs to tell her this thing several times throughout the movie, yet they never do, which is a little nitpick I have. Once everyone finally gets to Exegol Kylo Ren fights the Knights of Ren (which was one of the few good things about this movie) and Rey fights her grandfather... Emperor Palpatine. This fight had several cheesy moments and the same characters dying over and over again. It was chaotic and rediculous. During the climax of the movie I was feeling several parallels to "Avengers: Endgame" but unfortunately not played out as well (ex. all these people coming to help resistance similar to falcon saying "on you left" and the rest of the Avengers come and Emperor Palpatine saying "I am the Sith" and Rey saying "I am the Jedi" similar to Thanos and Iron Man's I am inevitable/I am Iron Man.
The movie was boring, cheesy with horrible writing. Worst of the new trilogy, although the special effects and fan service sere quite well done. You can tell they tried too hard to save Star Wars, it was basically screaming to be liked. But at least there is still "The Mandalorian".