Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019 • 141 minutes
2.8
232 reviews
51%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams join forces once more to take viewers on an epic journey to a galaxy far, far away with STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. Experience the riveting conclusion of the landmark Skywalker saga, in which new legends will be born-and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.
Rating
PG-13

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2.8
232 reviews
Joshua Hecht
October 26, 2021
Quite possibly the worst piece of Star Wars to ever exist. They call this the Skywalker saga but the sequels have absolutely nothing to do with the Skywalkers. It's an insult to call these films part of the Skywalker saga. And they resurrectes the best villain of all time, making Vader's sacrifice useless. All that aside, this movie flows terribly. It's writing is awful. Plot holes exist everywhere. Poor Carrie Fisher, they did what they could with her but it was a jumbled mess.
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Jay Monty
February 3, 2022
Horses in space! This one was a convoluted mess, trying to fix the second in this series. That thing grabbed all future single story movies in the works and drove headlong as a flaming train wreck over a cliff. This one continued the crash to the bottom of the cliff and exploded in a giant fireball. You can't fix stupid by being dumber. For the Love of God, I hope the Mandalorian shows don't attempt to rehab these asinine movies by chasing stupid. Always difficult to see, the future. This ain't
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Alex Wisecup
October 20, 2020
*This review contains spoilers for this The Rise of Skywalker and Endgame* -If I were to rate this movie based only upon how good the visuals were, it would be a definite five stars. But that's like the only thing I liked about it, because the story is an absolute mess. -This movie brings back Palpatine and only tries to justify it with a line he said in the prequels. (Some people are saying that there's more of an explanation to his survival in some book. But that's just plain stupid. Star Wars movies shouldn't have to rely on sources outside of the films to explain what's happening in them). This retcons the OT so much. Does anyone remember when Anakin was redeemed when he killed the Emperor? Well it doesn't matter anymore because what he did was undone just to be redone by an uninteresting, bland character. -This film also destroys any tension it could ever have, because it just lets every character in danger off the hook. For example: The heroes fall into quicksand, but a space snake clears out a way for them to get out. Chewbaca is seemingly killed by Rey, but it's a fake-out. C-3PO loses his memory, but gets it back from R2-D2. Zorii Bliss and Babu Frik are left on Kijimi after Zorii gave away their only way to escape (Kijimi is blown up like five minutes later btw), but they show up in the final battle. Finn, Poe, and Chewie are about to be executed, but the guy executing them wants them to escape. -In good writing actions have consequences, and that's what makes it more interesting. If characters keep luckily finding their way out of impossible situations, the audience (at least I) can't get invested because it's been established that there's going to be little or no consequences. -There are a lot more things wrong with this movie but this is the last thing. Being a Marvel fan, I couldn't help but notice how badly this movie copies off of Endgame. -When Poe realizes that they're probably going to lose, he suddenly hears the voice of Lando Calrissian over coms. And from out of nowhere countless ships arrive from hyper-space ready to defeat the Final Order. After that Poe lines all of the ships up and says "Rebels... Assemble." lol just kidding I made that last part up. -In Endgame a very similar event happens. If you've seen it you know what I mean, and if you haven't seen it, go watch it and you'll get it. -During the "climactic" ending where Rey kills Palpatine, he says, "I am all the Sith," to which Rey replies, "And I... Am all the Jedi." She then bounces Sheev's Sith lightning back into his face, disintegrating him. This is a straight rip-off of Thanos', "I am inevitable" and Tony's, "And I... Am... Iron Man" from Endgame. Not to mention, Tony disintegrates Thanos right after that. *snap* -It's like J.J. Abrams is a 6th grader who copied off another kid's homework but had to change it a little to make it look legit. -Anyway that's my review for The Rise of Skywalker. I probably would have complained more about the stupid amount of plot holes in this movie, but this already 600 words so I figured I'd stop now. *Just a side note to people who might think that I'm trashing a Star Wars movie just because I'm a Marvel fan... I'm not. I really like Star Wars, but this movie just isn't a good representation of the franchise as a whole.
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