Some Star Wars movies have aged well with time, but several aspects of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker still make no sense five years later. In all fairness to writer/director J.J. Abrams and co-writer Chris Terrio, The Rise of Skywalker‘s script had to be written quickly after writer/director Colin Trevorrow exited the project in late 2017. Abrams then had to finish the movie in even less time than he’d had with Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
While the circumstances are understandable, it doesn’t change that The Rise of Skywalker is an incredibly messy film that tries to do way too much at the last minute. With continuity errors that complicate the Star Wars timeline and a lack of basic storytelling logic, The Rise of Skywalker‘s lightning-fast pace isn’t enough to cover up its glaring issues. Analyzing the movie’s 15 biggest mistakes only reveals more elements that make no sense.
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Palpatine Broadcasting His Plan To The Entire Galaxy
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Transferring A Message By Cable
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Lightspeed Skipping
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“Somehow Palpatine Returned”
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Replacing General Hux With Allegiant General Pryde
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Pasaana Should Have Been Jakku
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“They Fly Now?”
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So Many Powerful Moments Are Undercut
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Poe Was A Spice Runner Before He Joined The Resistance
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The Blade Points To The Right Spot On The Death Star Ruins
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Why Exactly Did Leia Die?
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Luke’s X-Wing Working
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The Planet-Killing Star Destroyers Can’t Navigate On Their Own
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Rey Did Exactly What Palpatine Wanted
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Rey Burying The Lightsabers On Tatooine
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Palpatine Broadcasting His Plan To The Entire Galaxy
And he’s supposed to be a master strategist
Bringing Emperor Palpatine back at all, especially at the last minute, was already a questionable idea. This becomes immediately apparent in The Rise of Skywalker‘s opening crawl, which reveals that he sent out a threatening message to the galaxy that the audience doesn’t get to hear (except in the Star Wars crossover with Fortnite). It makes no sense for Palpatine to give the heroes a heads-up when he has the element of surprise.
If Palpatine had stayed quiet, he could have just launched the Final Order fleet and easily taken control of the galaxy. General Hux may still have leaked the information to the Resistance, but they would have had a harder time rallying a fleet if Palpatine hadn’t threatened the whole galaxy. Starting the movie this way makes Palpatine look like an incompetent villain, which the rest of the movie reinforces.
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Transferring A Message By Cable
There are more efficient ways to pass information
In classic Star Wars fashion, the heroes receive vital information that could turn the tide against the First Order. Unlike previous Star Wars movies, Boolio transfers the message to R2-D2 by cable, which takes time and gives First Order TIE fighters a chance to catch up with the Millennium Falcon. This is a major technological downgrade from simply putting the information on a datacard like in A New Hope.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also had a scene where it took time and effort to transfer the Death Star plans, but that was because the files were large. Boolio only refers to his information as a message and subsequent scenes never imply that he passed schematics or anything else that would require using a cable. It feels like the scene was only done this way to add extra tension even though it didn’t make any sense.
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Lightspeed Skipping
Apparently there is such a thing as luck
Poe Dameron uses lightspeed skipping to escape from the First Order TIE fighters, allowing him to make several quick hyperspace jumps. On the one hand, it does make sense that the Resistance would need to develop new, risky maneuvers because of the First Order’s hyperspace tracking technology from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. On the other hand, Poe had to be extremely lucky to pull this off without getting his crew killed.
It’s also implied that this isn’t a new technique and that Poe learned it when he was a spice runner. However, fellow former spice runner Han Solo said in the first Star Wars movie that lightspeed calculations needed to be precise because there was too great a risk of crashing into something. If the man who never wants to know the odds says it’s too dangerous, then lightspeed skipping shouldn’t be this easy.
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“Somehow Palpatine Returned”
With little to no explanation
The only thing worse than bringing Palpatine back at the last minute is doing so with little to no explanation, topped off with the now infamous yet hilarious line “Somehow Palpatine returned.” If the writers wanted to bring back a dead character and make him the true mastermind behind the events of the sequel trilogy, they needed a good explanation. Sadly, the most we get is “Dark science. Cloning. Secrets only the Sith knew.”
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Even this one line makes no sense, as there’s no way the Sith are the only ones who know about dark science and cloning. The Rise of Skywalker novelization by Rae Carson contains more details about how Palpatine cheated death, but viewers shouldn’t have to turn to books for information that should have been in the movie. It’s also a missed opportunity to expand Palpatine’s talk of achieving immortality in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
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Replacing General Hux With Allegiant General Pryde
An unnecessary last-minute replacement
Richard E. Grant’s performance as Allegiant General Pryde was admittedly a highlight of The Rise of Skywalker, but his character is ultimately unnecessary. General Hux was presented as the leader of the First Order armies, only to be pushed to the background in favor of a new general that had to be established in an already bloated film. Just because The Last Jedi turned Hux into a joke didn’t mean The Rise of Skywalker had to double down.
Hux could easily have switched places with Pryde, and making him Palpatine’s servant would have made more sense. Hux’s father, Commandant Brendol Hux, served Palpatine during the reign of the Empire and was a founding member of the First Order. This would give new context to Hux telling Finn that he needed Kylo Ren to lose and possibly explain some of his questionable choices in The Last Jedi.
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Pasaana Should Have Been Jakku
Yet another desert planet
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The planet Jakku received criticism when The Force Awakens came out for being an unnecessary clone of Tatooine, and Abrams made the same mistake in The Rise of Skywalker. The heroes travel to Pasaana, another desert planet, to find vital information for locating Exegol. However, since Ochi of Bestoon knew Rey was on Jakku anyway, adding Pasaana was unnecessary.
The film could have revealed that Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian chased Ochi to Jakku but lost him in the sinking fields, the same ones Rey warned BB-8 to avoid in The Force Awakens. If Lor San Tekka was with them, this would explain why he was hiding on Jakku, and Luke would give him a map to where he was going. If Pasaana really had to be another planet, then at least make it something besides another desert.
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“They Fly Now?”
Jetpacks have always existed in Star Wars
As the heroes flee the First Order on Pasaana, they are shocked to see the stormtroopers using jetpacks, comically shouting “They fly now!” This shouldn’t be confusing for Finn, as the Republic clone troopers and Imperial stormtroopers had jetpack variants, so why would it be different for the First Order? Even if they had never seen a flying First Order stormtrooper, jetpacks aren’t unheard of in Star Wars.
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So Many Powerful Moments Are Undercut
Sometimes in the same scene
Amidst the overstuffed plot and fast pacing, The Rise of Skywalker has powerful emotional moments, but most of them are ruined in later scenes. One of the most glaring is Chewbacca’s “death,” where Rey seemingly kills an iconic Star Wars character, only to reveal five minutes later that he survived. C-3PO also sacrifices his memories to complete their mission, but R2-D2 restores them before the third act.
The Rise of Skywalker also has too much comedy that often undercuts what should be serious moments.
Even the most devastating moment in the movie is undercut when Rey dies but is immediately revived by Ben Solo. While this leads to a happy moment where they share a kiss, the scene turns tragic again with Ben’s sudden death. If The Rise of Skywalker didn’t want to commit to these emotional moments, then the plot should have been simplified by cutting them out.
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Poe Was A Spice Runner Before He Joined The Resistance
Contradicting the movies and books
The Rise of Skywalker finally revealed something about Poe’s backstory, but in doing so, it created a continuity error. The Star Wars books established that Poe was a member of the New Republic navy before Leia recruited him into the Resistance. The Last Jedi reflects this by having Poe identify himself to the First Order as “Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic fleet.”
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Unfortunately, The Rise of Skywalker contradicted this by revealing that Poe was a spice runner before he left to join the Resistance. Star Wars: Poe Dameron – Free Fall by Alex Segura attempted to reconcile Poe’s conflicting backstory with mixed results, but this shouldn’t have needed fixing. Even if Poe being a spice runner wasn’t an error, it feels redundant for the movie to copy and paste Han Solo’s backstory onto Poe.
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The Blade Points To The Right Spot On The Death Star Ruins
Convenient yet highly improbable
When the heroes arrive in the Endor system, they discover that aligning the dagger with the Death Star ruins points to the Wayfinder’s location. The fact that so much of the Death Star survived the explosion in Return of the Jedi and landed somewhere besides Endor is already hard to believe, but even more confusing is how the blade alignment could still be accurate. Fragile ruins sitting in an ocean should have moved, collapsed, or been eroded by now.
Even if the ruins have remained intact, why would Palpatine or his servants create this clue in the first place? Why risk such a valuable artifact being destroyed if the structure caved in or allow someone not loyal to the Sith to find it? This may be the most ridiculous part of the entire movie, which is saying something considering the things that happen later.
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Why Exactly Did Leia Die?
Confusing deaths must run in the family
Killing off Leia Organa was probably inevitable after Carrie Fisher’s passing, and the filmmakers had limited footage to work with. Even so, the way Leia dies is confusing, as the movie never clearly establishes that she is so weak that using the Force could kill her. All she does is speak one word to her son from across the galaxy, which hardly seems like enough to drain the last of her strength.
Perhaps the shock of connecting to Ben when Rey stabbed him was more than Leia could handle, but it seemed as if she was already dying before that. This shows that the writers failed to learn from the mistakes of previous films, as Padmé Amidala’s death in Revenge of the Sith was criticized for seemingly having her die of nothing more than a broken heart. Like mother, like daughter, it would seem.
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Luke’s X-Wing Working
He went out of his way to ensure it wouldn’t
Many fans were disappointed that Luke didn’t show up in person at the end of The Last Jedi, but this could be forgiven because he had no way to get off Ahch-To. However, The Rise of Skywalker made the baffling decision to have Rey leave Ahch-To via Luke’s old X-Wing, which should never have worked. It had been underwater for over half a decade, and the door on Luke’s hut was supposed to be made from his X-Wing.
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The Planet-Killing Star Destroyers Can’t Navigate On Their Own
Why don’t they just go up?!
The Rise of Skywalker has the highest stakes out of all the Star Wars movies thanks to Palpatine’s fleet of 10,000 planet-killing star destroyers. Unfortunately, having such a ridiculously high threat level requires an equally ridiculous explanation of how the heroes can win. The weakness the writers settled on is the star destroyers being unable to navigate on their own in Exegol’s chaotic atmosphere.
If 10,000 planet-killing star destroyers are this useless, then there is no point in having them.
Not only is it absurd that ships capable of destroying planets could lack basic navigation, but the Battle of Exegol contradicts that. When General Pryde sees that the Resistance is targeting the navigation tower, he decides to guide the fleet out with his own command ship, but why can his star destroyer tell which way is up? If 10,000 planet-killing star destroyers are this useless, then there is no point in having them.
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Rey Did Exactly What Palpatine Wanted
Is he really gone for good?
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Rey’s final battle with Palpatine is a perfect example of the sequel trilogy copying the original trilogy visually but lacking context that made the originals work. When Luke saw that striking down his father would turn him into what he fought against, he decided he would rather die a Jedi, and this inspired Vader to redeem himself and turn on Palpatine. The Rise of Skywalker also highlights this theme but doesn’t follow through.
Palpatine tells Rey that he wants her to kill him in anger so his spirit can transfer to her, and while she refuses at first, that’s exactly what she does to defeat him. Rey kills Palpatine by redirecting his Force lightning and seems pretty angry when she does it, so she still gets revenge on the man who killed her parents. This is thematically inconsistent and makes it unclear why the audience should believe Palpatine is gone this time.
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Rey Burying The Lightsabers On Tatooine
A confusing end to a confusing movie
As with the beginning, The Rise of Skywalker ends with one final moment lacking logic. Rey travels to Luke’s childhood home on Tatooine and buries his and Leia’s lightsaber in the sand, and while it may seem fitting to end the Star Wars saga where it began in 1977, it makes no sense in-universe. This is where Anakin and Luke were forced to bury those who raised them, while Leia has no connection to Tatooine.
Rey burying the lightsabers is also thematically inconsistent with her taking the Skywalker name, as it visually represents her leaving the Skywalker legacy behind to forge her own path. Instead of honoring her mentors’ lightsabers, she buries them in a random spot where they will eventually decay and no one will ever find them. It is just one of many moments that show why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a lackluster ending to the Star Wars saga.
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Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker
PG-13
This is the third installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and serves as the culmination of the Skywalker saga. The film sees Rey (Daisy Ridley), Poe (Oscar Isaac), and Finn (John Boyega) team up to put an end to the First Order after Palpatine mysteriously returns. Jurassic World helmsman Colin Trevorrow was originally named director back in 2015 when the film first entered development, but he parted ways with Lucasfilm due to creative differences over the script. In September 2017, Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams signed on to finish what he started.
Release Date
December 20, 2019
Runtime
142 minutes
Franchise(s)
Star Wars
Cast
Carrie Fisher
, Oscar Isaac
, Anthony Daniels
, Joonas Suotamo
, Mark Hamill
, Adam Driver
, Ian McDiarmid
, Kelly Marie Tran
, Billie Lourd
, Keri Russell
, Richard E. Grant
, Daisy Ridley
, Lupita Nyong’o
, Dominic Monaghan
, John Boyega
, Domhnall Gleeson
, Billy Dee Williams
, Naomi Ackie
Director
J.J. Abrams
Writers
Chris Terrio
, J.J. Abrams
Budget
$275 million
Studio(s)
Lucasfilm
Distributor(s)
Disney
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