Star Wars: Ranking Every Film From Worst To Best

11. The Rise Of Skywalker

It's hard to express properly just how disappointing the latest installment in the franchise is.

A film which was supposed to serve as the culminating finale of an entire nine-film saga and forty years worth of iconic cinema wound up being unable to even be a satisfactory film in its own right, much less bring a fitting conclusion to its own trilogy or the saga as a whole. Returning director J.J. Abrams gives in to all his worst impulses and the result is not only the worst film of J.J.'s career but also the worst Star Wars film by a fairly wide margin.

Abrams and co-writer Chris Terrio's writing is flat-out laughable, seemingly wasting all of their time either cheaply retreading beats from earlier in the saga or circling back around to retcon elements of The Last Jedi which they either didn't like or felt were too divisive. On top of this, Abrams' direction and the editing of the film are flat-out painful to look at.

Even sequences which should be obvious slam-dunks, like Rey and Kylo's fight in the Death Star II's wreckage, is devoid of any tension thanks to a script that fails to clearly define either of their motivations, coverage that feels oddly distant and ill-planned, and an edit that fails to build even the bare minimum amount of tension or clarity.

It's an absolute trainwreck in every way and a stain on the legacy of the franchise.