You don’t need to look up how long it’s been since the original Star Wars. arrive on another of the series’ ubiquitous desert planets, whose leathery inhabitants are in the midst of paying tribute to their ancestors via a festival that happens once every 42 years. The first words in the opening crawl are “The Dead Speak!” and the first words spoken are “At last.” In their quest to track down the only duplicate of Kylo Ren’s tracking gewgaw (technically called a wayfinder), Rey and co.
If The Last Jedi was about breaking with the past, Skywalker is slavishly in debt to it. Like Abrams’ The Force Awakens, which replaced the original trilogy’s Death Star with a larger, deadlier Death Star, The Rise of Skywalker’s default approach is: again, but bigger. Piloting his way through an intestine-red nebula with the aid of a GPS shaped like a glowing green prism, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) makes his way to the planet Exogol, where a new threat to the freedom of the galaxy has arisen, a souped-up First Order called the Final Order. The Rise of Skywalker at least begins with a sequence of sublime visual beauty, as if Abrams and cinematographer Dan Mindel are out to prove that they can use the color red as well as Johnson did. But there’s a lot riding on how Skywalker lands the good ship Star Wars-and not just for Disney’s stockholders. We can debate the importance of final chapters, whether they really have, or should have, the power to elevate or invalidate everything that came before them-and though the ninth episode in this generation-spanning story has been advertised with the promise that “The Saga Will End,” that’s a promise that has been made and broken before. You could say the same of the movie itself. The Director of Borat Made a Musical Starring a Gay God and a Flying VaginaĪs they prepare for their final battle against the galaxy’s forces of evil, the characters in The Rise of Skywalker remind each other several times that if this doesn’t work, everything that’s come before-everything they’ve fought for, everything they’ve been through-will all count for nothing. The Most Revealing Part of the Louis C.K. It’s Actually a Good Thing That Sean Penn Made a Documentary About Ukraine A New Documentary Nails Everything That Makes Philly, Well, Philly
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