Movie Review: Star Wars — The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars is not a religion for me. I saw A New Hope and Return of the Jedi as a kid. I saw the prequels in college. I participated as a good American consumer in these latest ones. I think they’ve all been Meh, though The Last Jedi was bordering on a genuine disaster.

I saw this movie on the second biggest screen in the country at the Emagine Novi.

It was exactly what I expected. It’s not good — it’s devoid of any real feeling though, like the commercials the theater plays before it, it imitates what it thinks are human…