Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - 26 WTF Moments

13. The Terrible Young Leia CGI

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During Rey's chat with Luke on Ahch-To, he briefly discusses his and Leia's past, leading to a flashback of Leia's final training session where she witnesses a vision of Ben's turn to the Dark Side and eventual demise.

It's a stirring scene, at least until the two remove their face masks. The digitally de-aged Mark Hamill looks passable, but Leia?

Leia resembles a crude video game asset from a PS2 video game cutscene that somehow tripped and fell into a $250+ million blockbuster.

Given that audiences were surely prepared for a slightly rough integration of Leia into the movie given Carrie Fisher's passing long before it even started shooting, it's truly bizarre that this sequence is really the only particularly awkward one.

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