Review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by Scienceadvisor — 20 Dec 2019

This movie is all action and no substance. People that expected answers to questions raised in the first two movies get a single line of exposition as JJ proves he once again cannot come up with a moral, ethical, or logical conclusion to anything.

He also provies that he once again lied about not retconning aspects of The Last Jedi, becuase that is exactly what he does in Rise of Skywalker while further degrading the characters that Rian already debased.

JJ's typical mystery box McGuffin chases are just busy-work to distract from the lack of real script or character development. Even the CGI fails at times, and Carrie Fisher's posthumous return to the screen is carried out very badly, feeling quite artifical and out of place.

If there was ever a single line of exposition pretending to be an explanation, Leiah suddenly being considered dead between movies would have be the time for it. Heck, starting off with her funeral would have given the movie some much-needed feeling.

The ending is laughable and soul-sucking for any Star Wars fans, as it shatters the sacrifice of the original series and makes consequences meaningless in Disney Star Wars.