12 Movies In 2019 That Were Unfairly Hated

12. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

In 2017, The Last Jedi became one of the most polarising movies of the decade, only to be topped two years later by The Rise of Skywalker. There were those that hailed Episode IX as a strong finish to the Skywalker saga, and those that thought it amongst the worst the franchise had to offer.

After J.J. Abrams directed Episode XII, he stepped away for Episode XIII as Rian Johnson entered the fray, before returning to complete the trilogy. This inconsistency, and the poor reaction to the Last Jedi on the whole, put Abrams in a no win situation for Episode IX.

Several plot threads that were introduced in the first movie of the sequel trilogy, such as questions surrounding Rey's heritage and Snoke's past, were answered by Johnson in what was to many, a very unsatisfying way. What Abrams tried to do in Rise of Skywalker almost felt like, not only retconning, Episode XIII, but ignoring it altogether, including Kelly Marie Tran's Rose.

This decision was met with anger from a lot of fans who felt the director should have embraced what had come before. Yet, if Abrams would have continued as Johnson directed previously, the Last Jedi's critics would have been unhappy. With a fanbase as split as it was, was there anything at all Abrams could have done with Episode IX that would have avoided hate coming his way?