Kylo Ren took over the control of the New Order which aims to rule the Galaxy, but finds out all of this Empire revival stuff was organized by ex-Emperor Palpatine, who survived and is hiding on planet Exegol. Rebels, led by Rey, Poe and Finn, travel to a planet to obtain a pathfinder with a map that leads to Exegol. Leia dies, which shocks Kylo. The Rebels start an attack on Exegol, while Rey takes on Palpatine. Both die in the duel of the Force powers, but Kylo revives Ray, yet dies himself in the process of energy transmission. Rey flies off to Tatooine, burries Luke’s lightsaber and takes on the name Skywalker.
With "The Rise of Skywalker", a negative impression was consolidated regarding the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy: with a combined total budget of 750 million $ at their disposal, the authors and the producers had a historic opportunity to rally all the actors from the original series and use them wisely one last time to deliver something special, but in the end just wasted all their potentials to rehash (and nullify) the original trilogy with a routine copy-paste storyline that any 12-year old could have written. By having Emperor Palpatine return in this film (without any foreshadowing in the previous two films), the heroic efforts and achievements of the characters in "The Return of the Jedi" were retroactively "stolen" by the Grinch, without having the same effect of triumph brought back here as a compensation. Not even time travel films could mess up the continuity as this sequel trilogy.
Had they really cared about "Star Wars", the producers could have hired 50 people to read post-"Star Wars" fanfiction stories from everywhere, find the best ones and then buy the rights for them, instead of predictably just flashing the fans with "clickbait" in the form of the Millennium Falcon and the light saber, which had a short term effect which wore off much sooner than a great story with a permanent value would. The director J. J. Abrams spends a lot of time correcting the misdirections from "The Last Jedi", and thus in one scene Rey even returns to the self-exile planet to live like Luke Skywalker, only for the latter’s ghost to dissuade and tell her: “I was wrong!” Kind of late to realize that, producers. High production values make even this film appear very nice to look at, but at its core it lacks a soul and inspiration: it is just a bland, tiresome and calculative end to an unnecessary new saga, narrowed down by having to obey industry expectations which set all of its steps in advance, which became its burden. The "Star Wars" sequel trilogy seems like a bunch of drivers started a long caravan without a plan where they were heading, got lost somewhere along the way, drove around in circles, until they stopped in the middle of nowhere and proclaimed this as their destination.
Grade:+
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