Wasted potential

Rating: 5/10 (8 January 2020)

Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker is the ninth Star Wars movie and the final chapter in the Luke Skywalker saga and is directed by J.J. Abrams. In the final chapter the resistance has intercepted a transmission from Emperor Palpatine and its up to the resistance to stop Palpatine from completing his mission. I'm a big Star Wars fan and so far this new trilogy that J.J. Abrams has created has been a hit and miss for me, but this movie felt like J.J. Abrams took everything I loved about Star Wars ripped it into tiny shreds and threw it in the trash. At first I thought Last Jedi was bad, but after seeing this catastrophe, it made me realize that even though Last Jedi was not what I was expecting, at least that movie had originality than this. Rise of Skywalker feels like Return of the Jedi and Empire Strikes Back on speed. There is so much information being crammed into this final movie that they don't take a moment to breathe and give it a proper ending. This is one of the reasons why I loved the original trilogy because they treated those movies like a family from the cast to the extras, to everyone involved with the original saga. I can't say the same thing with this film however. I'll give the Force Awakens the benefit of the doubt because at least J.J. Abrams gave us his own vision of Star Wars ten years after Revenge of the Sith was released. However this film feels like a dysfunctional family, as all the characters from Force Awakens I don't even recognize them anymore. But the biggest problem is that no-one sat down, watched the Last Jedi, and followed up on those events, but instead they pretended that that didn't exist because fans were frustrated by how that turned out. And this is the problem with Star Wars is that it doesn't take risks anymore as it did with the prequels and the originals, which I sympathize. Everybody criticizes the prequels, but I have a soft spot for them, because at least George Lucas created a world before the originals and just ran with it no matter how half baked it looked. To wrap up this review, as much as I am destroying this, there were some parts that I liked, but in the end it didn't get the proper ending it deserved and that left me disappointed.