It inflicts additional damage to the legacy of the first six Star Wars movies. Scott wrote, "The problem with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t just that it absolutely walks back a number of potent reveals and plot threads from the last movie, but rather that the 142-minute movie spends almost its entire running time retconning its predecessor and adding painfully conventional “plot twists” and patronizing reversals in the name of mollifying the fans who merely want to be reminded of the first three movies. Related: Here's Why Fans Can't Stop Talking About The Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer This tends to be a problem with revamps and sequels nowadays that focus on visual similarities while attempting to modernize stories that almost erase the past. Scott Mendelson at Forbes absolutely skewered the movie for disrespecting what came before it. Moments are emphatically teased (particularly one between Finn and Rey) and then never resolved, presumably so that they can be mined for fan service in some future comic book or TV show." Abrams and Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow, who was slated to direct this installment and then fired.) It has a lot of lightsaber battles, but it lacks humor, the thrilling reveals of The Force Awakens, and the visual imagination of The Last Jedi. (There are four credited screenwriters, including director J.J. a problem almost every franchise movie has today.Īs Alissa wrote, " was written by committee - and, let’s be real, it probably was. And that's because so many voices were brought on to write, re-write, delete, and shoe-horn in ideas for the script.
While fans may not be able to put their finger on why the final movie in the Skywalker Saga is so bad, they can feel how muddled the tone is. In a scathing article by Alissa Wilkinson at Vox titled, "Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is what happens when a franchise gives up", the critique of the film being written by no one singular voice is brought up.
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