![]() When the movie opens, Rey ( Daisy Ridley) is continuing her Jedi training while her friends Finn ( John Boyega) and Poe ( Oscar Isaac) are gallivanting around the galaxy getting information about the dreaded First Order from a mole within that fascist organization. It’s technically illegal for me to tell you anything about the plot of Rise of Skywalker, I think, but I’ll risk censure by giving you the vaguest outline. It’s a turgid rush toward a conclusion I don’t think anyone wanted, not the people upset about whatever they’re upset about with The Last Jedi (I feel like it has something to do with Luke being depressed, and with women having any real agency in this story) nor any of the more chill franchise devotees who just want to see something engaging. But he thrashes away anyway, filling Rise of Skywalker with a million moving parts. Abrams is a talent, but he’s no match for a corporate mandate that heavy-his sleek, Spielbergian whimsy isn’t enough to cut through all the tortured brand maintenance. ![]() ![]() Not so for Rise of Skywalker, which tasks itself with an exhausting double duty: tying up the strands of a scattered series in some satisfying fashion while also attending to fussier fans’ Last Jedi tantrums, an atoning for supposed sins. Abrams, who kicked off this latest set of films with 2015’s zippily winning The Force Awakens, a retailoring of the Luke Skywalker story that had a pretty well-laid track to follow. The movie never rests, relentlessly ardent in its grasping for mythos. ![]() Which could explain why the final film in this trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker (out December 20), feels like such a desperate scramble to win back fans’ affection, to re-create that probably uncapturable sense of awe conjured up by the original series. If those gripes were made loudly enough for me to hear, they probably made their way to Disney, too. My therapist has forbidden me, for good reason, from wading too far into the whole debate about 2017’s The Last Jedi-the second film in the new Star Wars trilogy that continues the Skywalker saga-but it is my cursory understanding that some Star Wars fans do not like that movie. ![]()
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