Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - 26 WTF Moments

By Jack Pooley / December 20, 2019

25. All The Boring Fetch Quests

While the Star Wars movies have always been driven more by their compelling characters than their complex narratives, The Rise of Skywalker's spine of a plot feels especially unimaginative.

The first act of the movie alone forces the heroes and villains alike into a series of dull fetch quests, trapping both the characters and the audience in a loop of repetitive, uninteresting collectathons.

While you can get away with that in a Fast and the Furious movie where the story exists solely to service and justify the action, in a franchise where people actually care deeply about the lore and world, it's a weirdly slack approach.