Skywalker Supremacy

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2019)

Director Rian Johnson, known for "Looper" (2012), fully committing himself for "The Last Jedi" in writing the script and directing on and off set; additionally bringing on board cinematographer and editor in order to create an extraordinary "Star Wars" movie, rooting deep into Japanese mythology, especially with the sequences on Luke Skywalker's exiling island.
Actress Daisy Ridley, playing female Jedi apprentice "Rey", takes a step back in "Episode VIII", making space for Mark Hamill given the 'Skywalker performance' of a lifetime, taking non-stop action in fishing for food in stormy coves of the exile island, pushing leading character 'Rey' to her limits to discover secret passages of "The Force"; all very convincing and in the sense of George Lucas initiative of 1977.
But here comes the swinger in keeping traditional sound design and musical score so conservative, which might have worked in the 80s and 90s, where five times Oscar winning Hollywood legend composer John Williams owned every beat and pitch of "Zeitgeist" for musical underscoring motion pictures. Here seems the time to explore further option of Mr. Williams' classic "Star Wars" character theme, especially "Leia", "Han Solo", "Chewbacca", "Luke" and "Darth Vader" of course, which marching sounds made him legendary.
In recent 2010s history, I recall two times to listen to an extraordinary score in motion picture. One in 2017s "Blade Runner 2049" directed by Denis Villenueve, collaborating with composer Johann Johannson, and the other recent HBO television miniseries "Chernobyl" (2019), where emotional underscoring ambience created almost mystical feature. The wish for "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker" with returning "Episode VII" director J.J. Abrams, known for "Mission: Impossible" (2006), to have force and attitude with producers Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Disney executives to dare "The Impossible" in sound designing and scoring "Episode IX".
Everything becomes the enjoyable Hollywood blockbuster ride; especially in "IMAX" theatres; going all in towards the already slight melancholic sense that main characters are going to die as real-life "Princess Leia" actress Carrie Fisher in December 2016.