Redeems a Struggling Franchise

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2019)

The Force Awakens was flawed but still overall enjoyable and good. Rogue One was also a pretty dang good film. Then Solo and The Last Jedi happened. Solo was a good idea with very poor execution, and The Last Jedi is a disaster. I will say people take their hate for TLJ way too far. But anyways, the franchise was struggling. Then they made this film, The Rise of Skywalker. Mind blown. This film is shocking (in a good way), visually stunning, very well written (especially compared to other non-original trilogy Star Wars movies) and overall just a very thrilling and satisfying conclusion to the Saga. One reason TLJ was bad was the dialogue. The dialogue was pretty terrible. In TROS, the dialogue is a big step up. Still not the most talented dialogue writing EVER, but the failed attempts at humor and cheesy remarks are almost completely gone. The action is great and exciting. The film offers a very satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga. It is a very fitting end. As for critic reviews, they don't like it because of the fan service. But guess what, fans are going to really appreciate and even love the fan service. It sounds like they are just kissing up to fans after TLJ, but if you think about it thats kind of what a good franchise writer would do. They hear complaints and fix it to make it enjoyable, and pays homage and mimics the tone of the best installments in the series. All I can say to summarize that is that The Rise of Skywalker is awesome, and ends the saga very well