Star Wars: The Best Moment From Every Movie, Ranked

12. The Final Duel - Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise Of Skywalker

Despite being perhaps the weakest Star Wars movie to date, Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker is not without some solid action sequences and visual daring, such as when Palpatine is revealed alive (silly as it is plot-wise) in a storm of lightning flashes and gloomy darkness.

The best of the film, though, comes in the final confrontation between Rey and Kylo Ren, who have spent the previous films at war but unmistakably linked together in their struggle for purpose.

In a bracing duel set to a stormy sea backdrop aboard the old, collapsing Death Star, Rey and Ren battle it out one more time, with Rey reigning victorious and Ren, defeated and disillusioned, renounces his evil ways and the Dark Side of the Force.

For a film so overflowing with bizarre ret-cons, anticlimactic character assassinations (Leia! Hux!), and unconvincing villainy, The Rise of Skywalker makes perfect use of Rey and Ren's connection, creating in their final fight a brilliant duel built as much on twisty choreography as it is on deeply felt emotional strain.