Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Directed by J.J. Abrams
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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The result: a plummeting comedown from Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), by far the most beautiful and emotional entry in the Skywalker trilogy that started with Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
It effectively explains why 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” so closely mirrored the original 1977 “Star Wars.”
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and now Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have all cannily placed familiar motifs in new packaging, a mixing and matching that has drawn praise in some quarters while earning vilification in others.
The film completes the "Sequel Trilogy" that began and, somehow, peaked with the very neutered Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015 before swinging for the fences, missing, and hammering itself in its own balls with Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017.
“The Rise of Skywalker,” directed by J.J. Abrams, also concludes the sequel trilogy that began with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015) and continued in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (2017).
Director J.J. Abrams and co-writer Chris Terrio focus on the same sort of nostalgia-inducing images and character combinations that inflated “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in 2015.
The result: a plummeting comedown from Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), by far the most beautiful and emotional entry in the Skywalker trilogy that started with Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
Rian Johnson’s ambitious but muddled second installment, 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi , was divisive among fans, but delivering something more familiar and predictable doesn’t necessarily make The Rise of Skywalker an improvement.
Meanwhile, Rey (Daisy Ridley) continues her Jedi training with Gen. Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher, appearing courtesy outtakes from “The Force Awakens” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”).
Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Star Wars: The Last Jedi and now Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have all cannily placed familiar motifs in new packaging, a mixing and matching that has drawn praise in some quarters while earning vilification in others.
The film completes the "Sequel Trilogy" that began and, somehow, peaked with the very neutered Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015 before swinging for the fences, missing, and hammering itself in its own balls with Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017.
And as expected, screenwriters Abrams and Chris Terrio (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) attempted to fulfill as many fan fiction fantasies as possible with this chapter while keeping in mind this is a Disney property now and there are certain expectations from being a part of the Mouse House legacy.
Mounted as a conciliatory “apology” for The Last Jedi, Abrams – who co-penned the film with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice co-scribe Chris Terrio – scratches every last nostalgic itch the fanbase could possibly have.
The screenplay by Abrams and Chris Terrio, who has penned other manic action fests like “Justice League” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” quickly revives old “Star Wars” favorites like Emperor Palpatine, who you may recall was killed off by Darth Vader in 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” and even Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), still suave (“send Leia my love”).
The obvious place to point the finger would be at co-writer Chris Terrio, who, while he did win an undeserved Oscar for the decent “Argo,” was responsible for the dreadful films “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League.”
Director J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens and his team of writers and story artists (a host of names including Abrams himself, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s Chris Terrio, and Jurassic World‘s Colin Trevorrow, who was actually let go from directing this final entry) may be hurriedly retconning aspects left and right, but that doesn’t mean the corrective ideas in place make any sense.
Writer-director J.J. Abrams (2015's " Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens "), returning after sitting out 2017's decidedly divisive, Rian Johnson-helmed " Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi ," and co-writer Chris Terrio (2016's " Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ") live up to the daunting task of finding just the right emotionally true conclusion for all of these characters and their decades-long fight to bring peace and order to the galaxy.The dead has seemingly spoken with the appearance of a threatening transmission sent from the powerful, thought-destroyed Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).