Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: December 20, 2019

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LilKanekiv2Jan 16, 2020

This film... is really good. For me, for me, the third best movie in the star wars series.

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bluefin21Jan 16, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Film Review:
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

I was eighteen years old in the early summer of 1977 when Star Wars dropped like a cannonball into our laps. Both of my parents were still alive, and my brother’s mental illness had not yet shattered our family and sent my father to his early grave. As a group, we’d watched the last episode of Gunsmoke just two years prior, my Dad’s favorite show hands-down for most of its run, only falling off during those jaded Watergate years and our final disillusion with the Vietnam War. Then, suddenly, Star Wars arrived unannounced with its clear water morality—love not hate, courage over fear, loyalty to friends and common cause, and an appeal for simple faith in the universal connected-ness of all things. It felt childlike beside that era’s gritty, American cinema verité films like Chinatown (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Report to the Commissioner (1975). But, oh, how strong that simple appeal! In Star Wars, we found classic characters bound in common struggle against evil at high odds. The Kid, the rogue with the heart-a-gold, the princess—and we reveled in their unlikely success as they did, reassured that faith, courage, loyalty, and a little luck will stand against evil even at terrible odds. Still, Star Wars felt like a simple, rousing tale, but for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which grounded the Force in family. All at once, my father’s disappointment came clear, as did my resentment and confusion over my new role as the family’s savior in the aftermath of my brother’s affliction, a brother whose every step I followed like a trail blazed through adolescence. The tears I saw flowing on my father’s face bewildered, and the things I shouted over my shoulder, and he at me, stung, as I stormed out unaware that I would never see him again.

With The Rise of Skywalker, director J.J. Abrams understands one thing, clearly: forty years have passed since an American generation of young people marveled at those early Star Wars films. He knows that those young people have grown into middle age and that many have confronted life’s hard equations: that you cannot go back, that some opportunities never recur, and that you cannot unspeak harsh words you have said to those who have died. The Rise of Skywalker’s plot may feel derivative, its conventions rehashed, and its refusal to realize the story lines set out in The Last Jedi (2017) frustrating, but such things are small beer. They barely register next to Princess Leia’s final connection to, and Han Solo’s recovery of, their lost son; Ben’s reawakening to the love within him, and Rey’s final thrust to set things right while all the Jedi speak within her. For those of us who cannot stand beside the ‘force ghosts’ of our dead mothers and fathers and brothers, in conversation, and speak the loving truths we wish we could, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker rings our bell. J.J. Abrams knows well the film he has made for us, bless his heart. Michael D. Phillips… Expand

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AlexduhoomJan 17, 2020

Amazing film to finish the saga Kylo finally becomes an awesome character as well.

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Iamgab1Jan 17, 2020

Might not be the best Star Wars movie but it provides a really good ending, which is the most important. Great acting to from Driver and Ridley.

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Theo8176Jan 18, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie is great but bringing Palpatine was not a good idea because Anakin end the sith and bringing him back like that is like bringing back the sith… Expand

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Gabriel12pmJan 19, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The film is average, it is not the best, nor the worst. Rey being a palpatine destroys a beautiful message from the last jedi left, that you don't have to be a strong family in strength to be someone. hug from Brazil.… Expand

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SoloSullySaulFeb 23, 2020

It just makes you feel good and joyful.Has a happy ending and give a good message.

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Jaguar2020Apr 27, 2020

It is a worthy completion of the saga. The actors played well, but not disgusting. The entire film follows the dynamics, a slightly confusing plot. A bit of propaganda that we are all even, cute kisses at the end of the film between theIt is a worthy completion of the saga. The actors played well, but not disgusting. The entire film follows the dynamics, a slightly confusing plot. A bit of propaganda that we are all even, cute kisses at the end of the film between the girls, the resistance pilots. May neocommunism and world peace come. The action on the spot in some places ran a goosebump on what’s on the screen. Almost like in the good old days. The episode is far from a failure, as many toxic users think. Daisy Ridley in the role of Rey, who in the beginning builds herself up as an unworthy really great Jedi. A steeper villain than Adam Driver aka Kylo Ren must still be sought. Each actor gave his best to my personal opinion. The rebels and the Imperials smash each other for too long. I am glad that they are leaving for a hell.… Expand

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