Since a lot of you will be taking your families to the movies over the holidays, I decided to forego my usual Christmas poster and give you a quick, no-spoiler Rise of Skywalker review. After all, the critics haven't been very kind to the movie and you might be debating whether it's worth the money.
I went to see the film early on Christmas Eve and take it from me -- the critics don't seem to have visible the identical film I did.
Why are the critics so harsh? I suppose it's because Skywalker is really... "full" for a single movie. If they had planned all three movies in this trilogy from the start, they could have set up some of this story in Last Jedi. But they didn't and so there's about a movie-and-a-half of story squeezed into this one. As a result, some things that might have been built out a bit more get glossed over or simply ignored.
But do not permit that idiot you. JJ Abrams is a fanboy himself and he hit all the crucial beats. He cranked this film up to 12 and it is one helluva trip from the outlet move slowly.
And that is no longer hyperbole. If you've got visible any of the advertisements, you have seen a variety of footage which you expect to look on the midway point or maybe later inside the movie. But whilst the short "tale to this point" text crawls across the display at the start, you find out straight away that this movie isn't starting out the manner you expected... And a number of that business pictures occurs in the first short time.
That's proper, I said "the first few minutes." And the complete movie only receives better from there, folks. Plus there are plenty of little callbacks to the earlier movies -- a few oldsters call them 'Easter eggs' -- that, in case you apprehend them (and most Star Wars enthusiasts will), will get you into the story even faster.
Despite the rate of the tale, they nevertheless managed to get a few actual emotional intensity in this film. I do not cry in Star Wars films -- they just don't affect me that manner -- and but I nearly cried twice. That's no longer some thing I expected however, like I stated, JJ has accomplished an first rate job of hitting all of the vital beats.
As for those of you who have been tracking the spoiler reports -- and I know there were a lot of them because I tracked them as well -- I have news for you: The spoilers were misleading. While most of the leaks were reasonably correct (there were some last-minute spoilers that came out just a few days before the movie's release that corrected some of the grosser errors), they were still misleading because they totally missed the context in which things happen. The things that sounded so bad in the leaks were actually very powerful moments in the movie.
If you bypass the film because of the leaks and spoilers you heard, you'll kick yourself while you sooner or later discover what took place. I'll depart it at that.
Oh, and one extra element. Those of you who wondered how they would handle Carrie Fisher's dying don't want to worry. They did right via Leia, parents, and she performs a prime element in the movie.
In short, Rise of Skywalker is -- in my opinion -- not only a great finish to this trilogy but a grand finale to the entire Skywalker saga. Take the family and have a great time. I know I did!
And have a Merry Christmas!
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