Year: 2019
Director: J.J Abrams
Country: US
Language: English
In 2015 J.J Abrams launched a new trilogy in the Star Wars Sega with The Force Awakens. It left me unimpressed, essentially rehashing the entire plot of A New Hope, except with underwelming characters. In 2017 Rian Johnson retconned everything with The Last Jedi, answering all of Abrams' mysteries with a "doesn't matter". Who is Snoke? Doesn't matter cause we killed him off. Rise of Skywalker manages to retcon the retcon in attempt to copy-paste Return of the Jedi.
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga. Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) returns with his "final order"
I enjoyed parts of The Last Jedi, mainly the lessons of recovering from failure, the cutting of family ties and the feeling that anybody in the galaxy could be special. Who are Rey's parents? Doesn't matter! Rise of Skywalker tells us "actually this does matter!" although J.J Abrams answers are poor at best. It's as if he made it up on the day of filming. Rise of Skywalker is far more concerned about making the fans happy and fixing plotholes than making a coherent picture.
It is difficult to become emotionally invested in this picture as characters die, then seemingly come back the next scene. C3P0 says "I'm saying goodbye to my friends" and the next scene he's chatting with R2D2. The frantic pace of the picture, wherin Abrams rushes from one scene to the next, makes the conclusion to this trilogy feel like it was made by a compulsive adhd teenager who is addicted to energy drinks.
Po, Finn & Rose (who is now a background character) go nowhere in this film. Finn has something to say to Rey, but Abrams forgets about it. I do find the scenes involving Palpatine entertaining and worthwhile, although that doesn't give everything else a pass. It's dissapointing since Blockbusters have actually gotten better in quality lately; the MCU is impressively well written. Tough to see such big budget movies so sloppily made.
No comments:
Post a Comment