Rehash Of The Jedi

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2019)

As The Force Awakens had many elements of A New Hope, The Rise of Skywalker echoed Return of the Jedi in many elements, right down to the Ewoks making a cameo - Emperor Papatine returns and is revealed to have been to have been behind everything in the sequels (a much bigger surprise than when it was revealed in the Prequels) - Palpatine just oozes evil and remains one if my favorite Star Wars characters, the ending confrontation between him, Rey and Kilo was very reminiscent of the confrontation between Vader, Luke and Palpatine in Jedi - things are switched around enough not to make it a complete rip off but in the end Kylo(Darth) dies saving Rey(Luke), Palpatine becomes a victim of his own arrogance (again) and dies (again) and and having succeeded in turning Kylo(Darth) back to the light side of the Force, Rey (Luke) survives to continue the Jedi and Skywalker legacy, so yeah pretty similar although Darth and Luke didn't kiss in the end like Kylo and Rey.
Another similarity between the two movies - Rey's mentors - Luke & Leia - failed to mention that Palpatine was her Grandfather the same way Obi-Wan & Yoda failed to mention to Luke that Darth Vader was his Father, seems like something you might want to mention to a person.
It was great to see everyone from the original trilogy get a final bow, Luke Leia, Chewy, Lando, Han and of course C3PO and R2D2 all appear and we get a very emotional goodbye for Princess Leia, in which everyone will be thinking of Carrie Fisher, the problem with the sequels was the new characters could never measure up to the original trilogy's characters - Rey and Kylo were the strongest and their story flowed well through the three sequels, culminating in a satisfying way in The Rise of Skywalker , but I waited three movies to see if there would be any point to Poe and Finn being in the movies and in the end there really wasn't any, there was little development of their characters as their storylines meandered about from movie to movie without much consistency and ultimately led nowhere - but while it wasn't perfect, even with it's flaws The Rise of Skywalker was a fun, fast paced, enjoyable film that will please Star Wars fans and made for a satisfying conclusion to the Star Wars saga.