12 Dumbest Movie Plot Twists Of 2019

4. Rey Is Palpatine's Granddaughter - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is filled with questionable revelations and straight-up WTF moments, but nothing left the fanbase more baffled than the mid-film revelation that Rey (Daisy Ridley) is in fact the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).

Even accepting Star Wars' fascination with shoehorning contrived family relations wherever possible, it reeked more of a bad fanfic than actual, plausible storytelling.

Worse still, it walked back one of The Last Jedi's bolder creative decisions, that Rey is a "nobody," while bizarrely glossing over the identity of Palpatine's son, who is seen for just a few scattered seconds.

There was surely a way that this silly plot twist could've worked, but it's ultimately thrown out there with so little fanfare and so minimal logic that it just felt like a pandering, desperate attempt to raise the stakes.

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