A Fumbling and Joyless Defeat

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2019)

Neither The Force Awakens nor The Last Jedi possessed the slight of hand necessary to pull off Fantasy - given the baggage Star Wars carried with it's six prior entries. But what few victories they managed to sneak away with over the course of this new trilogy, they have surrendered with The Rise of Skywalker in hopes that - just maybe - if it's loud enough, if it's fast enough and if it's sycophantic enough to rile up evangelists, people might not notice that they never really had a story to tell.