Matt McCausland

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1 star for this instalment and 1 star for the sequel trilogy overall. This film seems so detached from the world created in episodes 1 through 6 - and the only real semblance of “Star Wars” in this series is the appearance of various characters from the original movies... but it feels more like a couple of old timers in it for their last hurrah. Ben Solo (Kylo Ren) seems nothing like a skywalker - and with his helmet on, he seems like an edgelord Vader wannabe. And they dealt his character a really weak hand and probably could have cast him a lot better. Then they killed him off in such an unceremonious way too. The supporting cast like Finn and Poe feel really weak too. Rey was actually a well done character and her arc was written decently. I find the whole palpatine resurgence to be lame. And with Rey being a palpatine and with them killing off Ben, “the rise of skywalker” is a really, really stupid title. I don’t care that Rey names herself Skywalker at the end... she’s still a palpatine and the title is stupid. If they were to call it “the rise of palpatine”, then that would be an equally impactful title and it would even have a bit of a twist involved in it too! But noooo... they had to use a deceptive title that doesn’t even match up to the film. The yellow lightsaber was cool to see though. This trilogy sucked and I hope they scrap it from canon so that someone can fix it somewhere along the way.