Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan review with spoilers: ‘The thrill is tangible’

The story isn’t perfect, the reanimated Leia is weird and the Emperor is a pantomime villain – but who cares when you’re skipping along at lightspeed?Spoiler Alert: Film content revealed in this discussion, so proceed with cautionAbout 40 minutes into Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker there’s a little switcheroo where you think that Chewbacca has died.

And I believed it.

I mean, it’s the last of the sequel-trilogy, the last of this particular nine-film story arc, and important characters have died already.

But Chewie? Could they really kill Chewie?No, thank the Maker, they did not.

In fact, it’s only one more scene until you see Chewbacca alive, and growling with such ferocity it blows the hair back on Domhnall Gleeson’s General Hux.

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