Dang, Star Wars has been getting trashed. Currently, on Rotten Tomatoes, The Rise of Skywalker is sitting with a beefsteak-splattering 58 percent, and given that the thoroughly awful Last Jedi earned a 91 on the tomatometer, that’s really not good at all.
I’d love to tell you that our very own Tim Grierson was able to rise above the groupthink and point out the film’s silver linings, but he hated it too — though less for how much action bloat J.J. Abrams opted to include, and more for how much that bloat lands like a wet, anticlimactic fart.
So, uh, *pulls at collar* I’ll see you all there on opening night?
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Rise Of Skywalker def sounds like it sucks a whole ass, but, as I try to explain here, a lot of that comes down to fan culture of leaking and speculation, and studios failing to meet it https://t.co/giKf2yz8l8
— hussein kesvani (@HKesvani) December 18, 2019
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