Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Rant/Review
December 21st, 2019 THIS IS FULL OF SPOILERS. It takes a lot to land a huge, overarching storyline, particularly one that’s been going on for over a decade. Avengers Infinity War and Endgame somehow managed to pull it off and deliver an enjoyable finale, which was especially impressive when you consider that it had to also contend with a roster of over twenty characters. Unfortunately, Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker fails to meet the same standard, ignoring logic, rules of storytelling, and things that have been established before in favor of pushing out a story that they hope won’t upset as many people as Last Jedi did. So yeah, I didn’t love this movie. What follows is my traditional three part review “list” but rather than “Loved, Neutral, and Hated” like I normally do I’m instead going to do “Good Things, Problems, and Nitpicks”. Because I had a LOT…