However, the core nine-movie arc will now be hampered by a series finale that was about as well-liked as the finales of Game of Thrones and How I Met Your Mother. Tempered expectations going forward, where nobody is chasing the $2.068 billion gross of The Force Awakens, may make a world of difference. Star Wars will live beyond the middling reception of Episode IX. Would $1.069 billion have looked better as the first or second-biggest grossing movie of 2020 instead of the ninth-biggest earner of the year, behind even Warner Bros.’ R-rated Joker? Whatever value there was in making sure that Star Wars IX was included in Disney’s 2019 fire sale (arguably to get these films onto Disney+ faster, and to act as a grand finale if Bob Iger actually retired last year) came at a rather large price. Its eventual box office take wouldn’t have been compared to the deluge of $1 billion grosses in 2019. That extra time would likely have ironed out at least some of the nitpicky issues, even if the broader story beats and certain choices (like the near erasure of Rose Tico) still would have stung. At the very least, delaying the film would have likely resulted in a more coherent and disciplined narrative. I was not expecting an almost objectively bad movie, one with little purpose save for undoing the prior sequel, the retconned reveals and delivering a finale that validated the “original trilogy” Star Wars fans as the proverbial chosen ones, and lacking meat-and-potatoes entertainment value. He writes: "Bumpy as the ride sometimes is, though, no one can accuse Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker of stinting on action, emotion, planet-hopping, callbacks, fan-servicing, or, well, anything Star Wars, as Abrams goes for maximalism laced with classicism.I was expecting a well-made movie that occasionally made me roll my eyes in relation to how it walked back or retconned The Last Jedi. In our Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker review, Total Film's Jamie Graham thought Abrams finale was worth the wait. For context, it's certainly not in the bum-numbing region of Endgame or The Irishman, but you might want to consider how big you go on the drink you take in with you. And just in case you're wondering, here's how the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker runtime also stacks up compares the rest of the Star Wars series:Īs you can see, it's not quite as long as The Last Jedi, but does pip The Force Awakens by about 4 minutes.
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