{"id":27456,"date":"2026-10-12T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=27456"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:39:40","slug":"star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I have a bad feeling about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker<\/strong>, released in 2019<\/p>\n<p>Rey is training with Leia. Finn and Poe get a message from a mole inside the First Order. When Kylo Ren finds out Palpatine is still alive he pays him a visit. Palpatine says he can have everything if he does what he says &#8212; kill Rey. Palpatine has a fleet of ships he&#8217;s constructed over decades. When Rey and Kylo Ren meet on his ship he asks her to join him.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi\/\"><strong>The Last Jedi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots to like here. There&#8217;s a beautiful scene between Ben and Han&#8217;s ghost. It was nice to see Lando again, and he fit in to what was going on. Rey&#8217;s jump over Kylo Ren&#8217;s ship was astonishing. C-3PO&#8217;s sacrifice was one of his finest moments.<\/p>\n<p>The inconsistencies in the series do stand out in this one. One of the biggest questions we&#8217;re left with is: when they called for help why did no one help them in <strong>The Last Jedi<\/strong> and everyone helped them this time? How does Rey know how to drive a skimmer? Why did Rose get demoted to a lesser role? There are explanations for all of these but if you got them from the movies you were paying closer attention than me. Hux being the mole? That&#8217;s a bit crazy.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of things that made more sense to me this time in the context of all the movies I watched in a row. Palpatine returning made more sense, and naming herself Rey Skywalker also made more sense.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, and Greg Grunberg. Directed by J. J. Abrams (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens\/\"><strong>Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/a>). Scoring a <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> movie for the last time is John Williams.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it. My previous review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I have a bad feeling about this.&#8221; Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, released in 2019 Rey is training with Leia. Finn and Poe get a message from a mole inside the First Order. When Kylo Ren finds out Palpatine is still alive he pays him a visit. Palpatine says he can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8,122],"class_list":["post-27456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27520,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456\/revisions\/27520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}