Ridley has an uncanny ability to hold the screen, even when the screen-filling, explosion-filled, CGI battles give way to close-ups of Rey, the weight of the galaxy reflected in her expressions. Together, they can rid the galaxy of the Jedi warriors once and for all and take their rightful place as rulers of the New and Even Bigger and Badder First Order.ĭriver is one of the best young actors in the world, but he’s more convincing playing conflicted than pure, bone-chilling evil. Kylo Ren tells Rey her lineage is more complicated than she thinks it is, and her rightful place is alongside him. Or maybe they do we can’t understand all the languages all the creatures in these movies are employing.) (Not that Beat poets exist in this long-ago galaxy far, far away. Rey believes Ben Solo still lives inside the deeply conflicted Kylo Ren, who talks a mean game and enjoys choking out mere human generals who dare question his motives, but still has a rather endearing pigeon-toed gait, fashionable hair and the sensitive, wet eyes of a Beat poet. are trying to right the ship, so to speak, for some of the perceived injustices and inconsistencies in the still controversial “The Last Jedi” from two years ago.
Just as often it feels as if Abrams and Co. “The Rise of Skywalker” has some callbacks to previous chapters in the “Star Wars” canon, sometimes to cool effect. (Alas, certain characters don’t get to do much other than roar with great joy and/or terrible disappointment when they witness something major happening just over … THERE.) The performances are earnest and, in some cases, emotionally impactful. The special effects are as fantastic as you’d expect them to be.
Abrams and featuring a twist and turn and surprise around nearly every corner, “The Rise of Skywalker” is an action-filled, plot-packed, unabashedly sentimental, cameo-heavy, rousing adventure. Opens Thursday at local theaters.ĭirected and co-written by J.J. Rated PG-13 (for sci-fi violence and action).
Abrams and written by Abrams and Chris Terrio. Lucasfilm presents a film directed by J.J.
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