Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Full Spoiler Review
About forty minutes into Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker there's a little switcheroo where you think that Chewbacca has died. And I believed it. I mean, it'due south the last of the sequel-trilogy, the final of this particular nine-motion-picture show story arc, and important characters take died already. But Chewie? Could they actually kill Chewie?
No, give thanks the Maker, they (by "they" we mean JJ Abrams, co-screenwriter Chris Terrio and Luscasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy) did not. In fact, it's only one more scene (maybe two, proceed in mind I was seeing white hot when I thought my Wookiee pal had bought it) until you lot encounter Chewbacca alive, and growling with such ferocity information technology blows the pilus dorsum on Domhnall Gleeson'south General Hux.
And that, I recall, is the overall bulletin of "Episode 9". All the toys go dorsum where they are supposed to go at the terminate. The movie snaps together like a jigsaw puzzle, a serial of final beats that seem inevitable and perfect, and designed to please all parties, so long every bit you don't dwell on the logic too much. Moreover, Chewbacca finally gets that medal denied him by Princess Leia in the throne room of the Swell Temple of Yavin a long time agone in a milky way far, far away (1977, when Star Wars was a risky moving picture venture from hot shot managing director George Lucas after American Graffiti, non a projection dripping with toy and merchandise opportunities).
In 2015, I had the good fortune to see Lucas conversation with Stephen Colbert at the Tribeca moving-picture show festival. Lucas is an unusual person, to say the to the lowest degree. Among other things, he however claims that he spends his days tinkering on "experimental films" to prove his friends and then they tin express joy at him. But something stayed with me from that afternoon. His chief creative vision, the words he kept using to express the engine that drives him, is "going fast". Speed, more than than narrative coherence, may just be his greatest legacy of all.
To that end, JJ Abrams is truly his Padawan. The same, I saw Colbert chat with Abrams at the Montclair flick festival in New Jersey. During that talk Abrams confessed he knew that the orange foam that dissolved the metal van in Mission: Incommunicable III was bunk science, but only cared that it looked amazing, and it would zoom by so quickly no one would intendance. The 2 touched back on this point a few times, turning information technology into a punchline.
Never in Abrams'south career has he relied on this methodology more than in The Rise of Skywalker, which doesn't just open up with lightspeed merely "lightspeed-skipping". The Millennium Falcon zaps beyond the galaxy, baddies in tow, zipping through multiple blueish tunnels of subspace, with Poe, Finn and Chewie cracking wise, Tie-fighters on their tail. A plane of precipitous asteroids! A sky full of tall, narrow towers! An enormous space slug ready to gobble them up! John Williams's score crashes along with them and, yes, this is what they mean when they say "this movie fabricated me feel like a child once more". Each newly glimpsed setting is gorgeous and the thrill is tangible. After Rey chastises them. The Falcon, patently, can't lightspeed-skip. But it but did, because our team is the best team! Why bother complaining?
Abrams's attempt, with this film, to tie all of Star Wars lore in a bow isn't perfect. A visitation from a expressionless spirit is classic to the series, but The Rising of Skywalker has two nigh back-to-back moments that deaden the emotional impact of ane some other. I wish that there was a little more air in between these scenes. As well, Carrie Fisher is in the movie more than than I thought she would be, and I have to say it is weird. Maybe it's simply because I know her appearances are reanimated from the discarded takes of previous films with computer tech that could land a person on Mars, but I wish information technology was i scene, not many. To the writers' credit, the script, surely reverse-engineered to match whatever footage they had, basically makes sense. It's a 1-fourth dimension phenomenon, but I hope nothing like this ever happens once more.
There are plenty of winks to the original series, only we're swimming in that at the moment cheers to the current (and terrific) TV series The Mandalorian. What The Rise of Skywalker does, which some may dislike, is whip the Emperor (AKA Senator Sheev Palpatine AKA Darth Sidious) out of nowhere and use him equally a crutch to answer the question of Rey's heritage. To this I say: sure, whatsoever. What worked really well, though, is how Abrams and cinematographer Dan Mindel shoot Ian McDiarmid like a Hammer horror villain, interior lighting casting shadows on his confront. He's hanging from a jib for some reason, in a pit y'all tin only access by going under an enormous cube on a planet hidden past a cosmic tempest. Star Wars!
While Palpatine's lair looks incredible, it makes admittedly no sense that if Rey strikes the Emperor downwardly on his command she will get to the Dark Side, but if she does and then ten minutes afterward she will be the hero of the galaxy. But this is what happens, and information technology works because the momentum of the flick makes it so. Information technology's all also fast and too neat looking to give you a chance to question it. So I cheered. I tin can't explain it, but I cheered.
Beingness a Star Wars fan has, of late, become weirdly factional. A pocket-sized but extremely vocal subgroup have harassed Rian Johnson, writer-director of The Terminal Jedi, and some of the new actors his chapter brought in, namely Kelly Marie Tran. Their actions are upsetting and ridiculous, and it has understandably inspired others to protest in favour of the center film. But even the defensiveness has become extreme. I am glad, in a way, that this is all over now, and hope that, in time, that chatter will seem afar, and nosotros can enjoy these extremely entertaining and marvellously designed films for what they are: rich, nerdy fun with very basic plots a child can follow. As well, Chewbacca is my favourite.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/18/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-in-depth-fan-review-the-thrill-is-tangible
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