<em>The Rise of Skywalker </em>Is the Most Incoherent<em> Star Wars</em> Movie Ever Made
The saga’s ninth film, directed by J. J. Abrams, all but drowns in a sea of nostalgia and infinite plot points.
In one of the very few moments in where the action slows down for a second, the beloved droid C-3PO pauses to appreciate the heroic ensemble. “I’m just taking one last look at my friends,” he says. That kind of naked nostalgia is on display for every frantic minute of J. J. Abrams’s new film, the ninth and supposedly conclusive entry in the newly dubbed “Skywalker Saga” that George Lucas began with the first in 1977. The gang’s all here—every new and old favorite character one could imagine—for an experience so convoluted and overstuffed that I wondered if the whole cast would
