The Rise of Skywalker is the only outright bad Star Wars movie. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002) (Photo: Lucasfilm) Seeing Cad Bane in live-action made the back half of this series tolerable, but you have to sit through a whole episode of CGI Luke Skywalker first.

There's so much to enjoy in those early episodes, but it all gets tossed out the window in an effort to be more cohesive with the rest of the TV universe. It's a story about a misunderstood man finding himself within a tribe of misunderstood people, dealing directly with the suffering of indigenous people and the devastating effects of colonization. In the back half it becomes something like The Mandalorian Season 2.5, forgoing entire episodes with Boba Fett in order to catch up with Din Djarin, Grogu, Luke Skywalker, and Ahsoka. The first half of the show is Boba's redemption story, and we watch as he bonds with the misunderstood Tusken Raiders, trying to save them from the cruelty of the people who stole their land. The Book of Boba Fett is a tale of two halves. Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett (2021) (Photo: Disney+) Given his track record with the Jurassic World series, there's absolutely no guarantee it would've been better than what Abrams delivered, but it still does make you wonder what the end of the trilogy was originally planned to be. One of the biggest questions surrounding Star Wars from now until eternity will focus on what Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX would've looked like. The whole film feels like a course correction for a trilogy that didn't need it, as if the creative team was more concerned with finding the lost threads of their own story from two films ago rather than picking up what was left in front of them. There are some good things to be found within the ninth chapter of the Skywalker Saga, mainly due to the excellent performances from the sequel trilogy's core cast, but the story itself is a such a jumbled mess that it's difficult to have a good time. When you look at all of the Star Wars movies that have been released over the years, The Rise of Skywalker is at the bottom of the pile, and it isn't all that close.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (Photo: Lucasfilm)Īpologies to J.J.

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