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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Directed by J.J. Abrams

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, AllAboutSteve, sleestakk, CaptainBigTime

Overview

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.

Rated PG-13 | Length 142 minutes

Actors

Carrie Fisher | Mark Hamill | Daisy Ridley | Adam Driver | John Boyega | Oscar Isaac | Anthony Daniels | Naomi Ackie | Domhnall Gleeson | Richard E. Grant | Lupita Nyong'o | Keri Russell | Joonas Suotamo | Kelly Marie Tran | Ian McDiarmid | Billy Dee Williams | Greg Grunberg | Shirley Henderson | Billie Lourd | Dominic Monaghan | Hassan Taj | Lee Towersey | Brian Herring | Dave Chapman | Richard Guiver | Lynn Robertson Bruce | J.J. Abrams | Claire Roi Harvey | Richard Coombs | Matt Denton | Nick Kellington | Mandeep Dhillon | Alison Rose | Amanda Lawrence | Tanya Moodie | Simon Paisley Day | Geff Francis | Amanda Hale | Amir El-Masry | Aidan Cook | Martin Wilde | Anton Simpson-Tidy | Lukaz Leong | Tom Rodgers | Joe Kennard | Ashley Beck | Bryony Miller | Cyril Nri | Angela Christian | Indra Ové | Richard Bremmer | Richard Durden | Andrew Havill | Nasser Memarzia | Patrick Kennedy | Aaron Neil | Joe Hewetson | Raghad Chaar | Mimi Ndiweni | Tom Wilton | Chris Terrio | Kiran Shah | Debra Wilson | Josef Altin | Vinette Robinson | Mike Quinn | Bill Kipsang Rotich | Ann Firbank | Diana Kent | Warwick Davis | Harrison Davis | Elliot Hawkes | Philicia Saunders | John Williams | Nigel Godrich | Dhani Harrison | J.D. Dillard | Dave Hearn | Rochenda Sandall | Jacob Fortune-Lloyd | Andreea Diac | Liam Cook | Denis Lawson | Carolyn Hennesy | Paul Kasey | Matthew Wood | James Earl Jones | Andy Serkis | Josefine Irrera Jackson | Cailey Fleming | Jodie Comer | Billy Howle | Hayden Christensen | Olivia d'Abo | Ashley Eckstein | Jennifer Hale | Samuel L. Jackson | Ewan McGregor | Alec Guinness | Frank Oz | Angelique Perrin | Freddie Prinze Jr. | Liam Neeson | Harrison Ford | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Ed Sheeran | Gerald W. Abrams | Jeff Garlin | Karl Urban | Kevin Smith

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

Left work early to meet Tonia and the kids for a 3:20 PM showing in the Atmos theater right by my office.

It was fine as a sequel to The Force Awakens but so fucking awful as a sequel to The Last Jedi. The middle of the road is an average, boring place for a space opera film to live.

The pacing in this was fucking awful. I felt like the first half of the movie was on fast forward. The artificial “we have 16 hours” bullshit made my eyes role so hard it hurt. Because so much detritus was crammed in and the pacing was so frantic, there was no real character development and certainly no room for any of the potentially emotional moments to breathe. For instance the scene with Rey in the desert with the departing prisoner shuttle should have elicited a massive gasp and instant tears from the audience but we weren’t allowed even a moment to ponder it before the circumstances reversed themselves in a lamely predictable way.

And WTF was with the Zorii Bliss character?! So much potential there and just nothing. A complete waste of a character whose emotional beats do a 180 in like 1 minute of screen time for fucking nothing. Stick that shit in a Poe Dameron solo movie where it’d be interesting and she’d have room to breath. Here it’s just wasted and takes time away that could’ve been used for literally anything else.

I’m also pretty disappointed in the way Rose’s character was handled. If any actor wants to talk shit about their involvement in this franchise, Kelly Marie Tran would be the one whose corner I’d be in. She got fucked over by a bunch of shitty “fans” and then fucked over by JJ Abrams.

On the whole, this trilogy’s storyline is the least exciting of the three trilogies BY FAR. Anakin Skywalker’s storyline and character development in the prequels is probably the most in-depth character development of any of the trilogies. I’ll be really interested in what the public perception is of the entire 9 film arc 20 years from now.

I still maintain that ROGUE ONE is the best of all the new movies, and perhaps in combination with the original, the best of all the films period.

I have more thoughts on this film but the more I write the less pleased I am so I’ll stop now.

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