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Post #1315688

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Haarspalter
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The Rise Of Skywalker — Official Review and Opinions Thread
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Date created
30-Dec-2019, 6:05 AM

Yesterday i saw TROS a second time. The story, macguffin hunt and the overall character drama, especially Rey & Ben Solo, was much better to process as at my first viewing. I feel that my criticism against TLJ starts to soften, because some interesting elements from that movie were carried over and expanded in TROS. Surprisingly i was also happy with Lukes screen time. I thought killing him off in TLJ was rather disadvantageous, but his absence actually supports Rey to be the main hero. I get the impression that Daisy Ridleys performance as Rey is much better and energetic under Abrams’ direction. Her being a Palaptine relative i have zero problems with. At least she isn’t a Skywalker, Solo or Kenobi - that would have been much less interesting in my opinion. I went in TROS complete spoiler-free by the way. I read none of the leaks.

All in all a nice and fun third movie in the trilogy. It has this ROTJ vibe like George Lucas is saying: “Let’s wrap this up as fast as we can!”. It does not feel like a Skywalker Saga nine-movies conclusion as the advertising was promoting. To me TROS concludes the Sequel Trilogy and that is all it needs to do. TROS had to remove a lot of rocks that TLJ put on the road, but it managed to deliver a satisfying ending.

7,5 / 10