Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Published April 13, 2020
Film info
- Title Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- Director J. J. Abrams
- Year 2019
- Run time 2hrs 22m
- Genres Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
- Tagline Every generation has a legend
Lucasfilm and director J. J. Abrams join forces once more to take viewers on an epic journey to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Experience the riveting conclusion of the landmark Skywalker saga, in which new legends will be born - and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:43 | That is some rage Mr Kylo. |
| 4:44 | Ooh, James Earl Jones voice! |
| 8:32 | “How do we thank you?” “Win the war.” |
| 11:22 | This is the Rey equivalent of Lara’s mansion. |
| 14:08 | “The whole thing’s on fire, all of it.” |
| 15:39 | Turns out it’s still too soon to watch Charlie from LOST in anything. |
| 20:55 | General Hux is such a terrible character. But so well done. |
| 26:06 | General Kalrissian. |
| 31:25 | “You didn’t say my name sir, but I’m alright.” |
| 36:13 | That’s not a thing, but I bet it’s important later. Using up one of her regenerations. |
| 41:54 | It was her fault, Finn. |
| 45:39 | BB-8 got a friend, so I am preparing myself for adorable stuff now. |
| 55:17 | Why can’t she just go with them? She wants to escape. |
| 1:00:58 | Villanelle is Rey’s mum? Weird. |
| 1:02:50 | WHAT! I didn’t see that coming. Not so terrible after all. |
| 1:05:08 | Well that explains the electricity thing. |
| 1:09:17 | I really love it when they do old stuff now. The destroyer in the sand. The god-damn crashed Death Star. |
| 1:17:09 | Fighting yourself is an interesting one. |
| 1:20:18 | I feel like that much water would mess with the lightsabers. |
| 1:25:00 | Recognise those dulcet tones anywhere. |
| 1:31:51 | Anyone who plays a Jedi must sort of dream of being all glowy at some point. |
| 1:39:48 | Some of the visuals in this are incredible. |
| 1:44:44 | Empress Palpatine! |
| 1:48:58 | Is it wrong I’m spending most of this time just worried about BB-8’s safety? |
| 1:52:50 | “Stand together, die together.” That’s not how it goes, ask Charlie, he can tell you. |
| 1:55:30 | “They’re just… people.” |
| 2:06:26 | Yay, cute Ewok! |
| 2:07:05 | Charlie survived! |
Thoughts
It was good! I’ve been trying to avoid most things Star Wars in anticipation of the film so I hadn’t realised there was such a negative reaction to this movie, I can’t really see what’s wrong with it? Good story, great characters, huge respect to Carrie Fisher, fun new creatures, interesting twist to the Rey story, and a big battle scene at the end. Sounds pretty Star Wars to me.
It really was quite hard watching Dominic Monaghan in this, LOST did such a lot of damage! But I like how even the smaller characters can be superbly important. There were lots of nods to previous things in the Skywalker series and we got a great sequence of Jedi voices to try and unpick.
I enjoyed it!
Rating: 5 / 5