12 Reasons The Star Wars Sequels Aren't As Bad As You Think

12. The Action Scenes Are Strong

The Sequel Trilogy certainly delivered on the action front, much like both the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy (which, for all of its faults, had many great set-pieces), and there were some truly awesome action scenes throughout.

In terms of picking highlights, the escape from Jakku, Battle of Crait and Battle of Exegol certainly linger in the memory. A valid criticism of this trilogy is the lack of truly stand-out lightsaber duels (and both Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker should've ended with one between Kylo and Luke, and Rey and Palpatine respectively), but the lightsaber duel in each film was still very good.

What really made the action scenes in this trilogy work was that you truly cared about what was happening and there was a hell of a lot of suspense as a result.