10 Hyped 2019 Movies That Disappointed Everyone
1. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Star Wars is a weird franchise. Since the original trilogy ended in 1983, Lucasfilm has struggled in terms of producing good movies. Episodes I, II, and III all paled in comparison to the first three movies, The Force Awakens was good but was basically a rewrite of A New Hope, Rogue One was brilliant but was not part of the Skywalker saga, and the less said about the Last Jedi and Solo the better.
When J.J. Abrams began the franchise's third trilogy, he set up several key storylines that Rian Johnson quashed in The Last Jedi, and with the trilogy's first director back to finish the story, it was always likely to be a balancing act to bring the previous two movies together.
What audiences were given was arguably the worst movie of the Abrams/Johnson trilogy. Episode IX is a movie riddled with convenient coincidences, shocking twists that just aren't that shocking, and enough new and unexplained powers to remove the story of any real stakes or suspense.
The end to, not only the trilogy, but the entire Skywalker saga, spends too much time trying to erase any and all memory of the Last Jedi instead of embracing it as what it was... a part of the Star Wars universe. As sad as the case may be, no matter how J.J. Abrams approached the series conclusion, fans would have been left unhappy and unsatisfied.