And in failing to forge its own identity, it tarnishes the predecessors that it so slavishly imitates.Ībrams is a serial recycler-bringing back Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness was a warm-up for the Palpatine reprise-and in his first film in the franchise, The Force Awakens, he carefully retraced George Lucas’s steps. It isn’t the worst-written or the worst-acted Star Wars movie, but it is the most misconceived. Abrams’s ending to the trilogy he began in 2015 offers a few laughs and a lot of familiar faces, but no new message and no added dimension to the Skywalker saga-no clever twist on the original trilogy, no surprise or subversion, no new layers of long-loved classics retroactively revealed.
But at its heart, if it has one, it’s just as soulless, uninspired, and tethered to the past. The Rise of Skywalker looks and sounds snappier than its decrepit, quasi-resurrected villain, and it’s a better hang than the last lord of the Sith. That makes him the barely living embodiment of a movie with little life of its own.
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