The undignified death of Star Wars

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2020)

This film is a complete and utter disaster. Even leaving aside the fact that JJ Abrams didn't build on what Rian Johnson created, but like a child throwing a tantrum decided to completely cancel what was set before him only to make a film that is arguably an entire trilogy hastily and haphazardly jammed into a single episode, "Rise of Skywalker" still is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It takes every single one of the mistakes made in the course of the other Star Wars films, magnifies them and shoves them in the public's face. The cliches, the mistakes, the predictability, plot armour so thick not even the whole Sith Fleet would be able to scratch it and Disney's need to make it a fairytale story that panders only to an audience of toddlers; all of these are some, SOME, of the reasons why TRoS sucks. But it's all made worse by the fact that this flaming wreck is supposed to be the ending of the Skywalker saga. Going into the theatre I was wary, giving what Episodes 7 and 8 were, but still hoped to find a dignified end to this magnificent voyage that started 40 years ago. By the end I was in utter shock: it had not only been not good, but it was beyond the most horrifying nightmare: the already low bar I'd set for this film was reached, surpassed and left in the rear view mirror. To conclude, do yourselves a favour and instead of watching this, do literally anything else but. This movie takes the last forty years of Star Wars, flushes them down the toilet, then nukes the toilet, then puts salt on the barren, radioactive wasteland that is left behind.
Congratulations Disney, you've killed a legend.