Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - 26 WTF Moments

25. All The Boring Fetch Quests

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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.

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