Ranking The First 30 Minutes Of EVERY Star Wars Movie From Worst To Best

11. Episode IX - The Rise Of Skywalker

J. J. Abrams' second sequel earns itself last place for the opening crawl line of "The dead speak!" alone.

Now sure, as with all of the most recent trilogy movies, the cinematography once that infuriating chunk of text had floated off-screen was rather breathtaking at times.

Kylo Ren ripping his way through Mustafar is majestic. The silly lightspeed skipping sequence contains some utterly gorgeous visuals as the Millennium Falcon darts across the galaxy. 

But none of that changes the fact that Palpatine's baffling and unnecessary return gets things off to a frustrating start, one that the final movie in the Skywalker Saga struggles to ever really recover from.

In that opening 30, there's unmemorable dialogue - outside of recycled lines/callbacks from prior movies - a sweet yet jarring effort to squeeze the late Carrie Fisher into the picture, and countless moments that made little to no sense at all early on.

The aforementioned lightspeed skipping flying in the face of the established rules of jumping to hyperspace and Finn's "They fly now?!" comment completely ignoring the fact troopers had boasted jet-packs since the Clone Wars are just a few.

And the whole opening stretch just rushing to cram in as many nods to the past as humanly possible, via cameos, themes, and more, set the tone early for this one.

You were right to have a bad feeling about this.