Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - 26 WTF Moments
11. Palpatine Goes Full Ham On The Resistance
Though the film's treatment of Emperor Palpatine is more peculiar than satisfying, Ian McDiarmid's delightfully over-the-top performance at least produces some amusingly ridiculous moments.
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Case in point, the climactic sequence where Palpatine unleashes a hellish lightning storm like we've never seen before upon the assembled Resistance fleet.
Palpatine cackles as he shoots lightning into the sky, causing ships to lose power and quite literally fall out of the sky.
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It's one of the film's most insane - and most visually stunning - moments, and McDiarmid is clearly relishing every second of it.