So I went to see #TheRiseOfSkywalker earlier tonight. I'm not really good at doing spoiler-free reviews; so I'm not going to say a heck of a lot. 1/
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I'll also say that the final confrontation in
#TheRiseOfSkywalker was well done, with a nice building of tension and real sense that the heroes were in a hole so deep that it was hard to imagine how they could emerge victorious. 5/Show this thread -
OTOH, the final battle sequence in
#TheRiseOfSkywalker also bears an uncanny resemblance in how it's structured to the final action sequence of#ReturnOfTheJedi: Luke/Rey in the throne room confronting Emperor Palpatine while the resistance fights a losing battle around them. 6/Show this thread -
That last Tweet was bordering on spoiler territory; so I'll stop now and move on to other things. 7/
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Of course, like all
#StarWars movies, time apparently had no meaning in#TheRiseOfSkywalker. 16 hours was a ridiculously short time for the heroes to stop the threat that they had learned of. 8/Show this thread -
It was also a little annoying to learn that Rey is not a "nobody" after all. I figured that Abrams would reverse that revelation from
#TheLastJedi. 9/Show this thread -
I also must admit that seeing Carrie Fisher in the movie from outtakes and leftover footage from
#TheLastJedi was a bit creepy, but if I didn't know that she'd died I probably wouldn't have felt that. 10/Show this thread -
Overall, I liked
#TheRiseOfSkywalker. It's not the best#StarWars movie. (It's more like middle—maybe upper middle—of the pack.) However, it still managed to do what it had to do and deliver a (mostly) satisfying end to the Skywalker saga. 11/11Show this thread
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