Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalkeris eventually out in dramatics across the world , turn in an epic , natural process - packed decision to a saga that has spanned well over 40 years . Going into the movie , fans were hum to see more of the nefarious Kylo Ren , who had become Supreme Leader of the First Order with the murder of Snoke inThe Last Jedi .
And it ’s fairish to say that Adam Driver , once again , majestically brought the lineament to sprightliness . We ’re now going to depend at his highlights from the blockbuster - commence with something he does aright at the very beginning …
Killing Locals
Kylo Ren was somewhat much unsound duringThe Force Awakens , allowing his emotions to get the better of him and often allowing his anger to spill out . He appear maturer inThe Last Jedibut , with no Snoke to keel him in , he begins the ascension of Skywalker in the mood for blood .
And in the very opening scene , we see just how formidable he is on the battlefield . Kylo abut through a woods on the planet of Mustafar , slicing up the locals and leaving nobody active . Dare we say it , but his convinced fashion is similar toDarth Vader ’s at this period - which is ironic considering he lived there .
Threatening Palpatine
Having gone through so much to receive the claim of Supreme Leader , Kylo Ren is n’t about to give his index up in a haste . And , when he adjoin Palpatine for the first time at the commencement of the megahit on Exogal , he refuses to cower in front of the Sith Lord .
Instead , he threatens him - which is brilliant to see . Kylo often seemed scared of Snoke but he shows no such fear when face to confront with the same man who wrick his grandfather to the dark side and it shows , right away , that the duo wo n’t be on the same page .
Connecting With Rey
Kylo Ren and Rey have many interaction throughoutThe Rise of Skywalker , using their strange force bond to contact each other . And the woof of the bunch is when the First Order ruler is on the planet of Kijimi - while Rey is purloin around his private quarters .
What have it so cool , specially from a Kylo perspective , is that he end up destroy Darth Vader ’s charred helmet as a result . It ’s a overnice adumbration of how the villain will abandon his design to emulate the Sith Lord by and by in the blockbuster - although we ca n’t help but feel a chip of Scotch tape might have helped fix it …
Revealing Rey’s Truth
A niggling while after their skirmish on board Kylo Ren ’s personal Star Destroyer , Rey is undertake to fly . Kylo does n’t require this happening , though , and chooses the moment to drip the thunderbolt that the former Jakku pack rat is actually the granddaughter of Palpatine .
While we ’re still iffy about the conclusion to have Rey be a congener of the former Emperor , it ’s a shameful moment for the audience . It then sparks an important flashback that elaborates on her parent and it hurt Daisy Ridley ’s character even more to know that Kylo was aware of the true statement long before she find out . It ’s beast on his part , though .
Sensing His Mom’s Death
Fuelled with passion at the revelation that Palpatine is her granddaddy , Rey goes to really ache Kylo Ren when they face off on the ruin of the second Death Star . Using the dark side , she ends up get the better of the baddie by stabbing him - before something even more surprising bump .
With her dying breather , Leia reaches out to her son . It ’s a poignant , aroused moment and one Adam Driver utterly pass with flying colors , make you really see the little lost boy inside Kylo as he battles between his inwardness and his fountainhead . It also sets up what fall out next rather nicely too …
Interacting With Han Solo
We think we ’d seen the last time of Han Solo when he was murdered by Kylo Ren back in 2015’sThe Force Awakens . However , in one of the freehanded surprises ofThe Rise of Skywalker , Harrison Ford reprise the use for one last sentence .
It ’s beautiful to witness the exchange between Han and his son , which plays out in a exchangeable way to how their conversation went in the first installment of the sequel trilogy . Han is at his brash best , even repeating his ' I know ' agate line from the Empire Strikes Back just as his child is about to evince remorse for his actions .
Throwing The Lightsaber
Han Solo vanishes soon after forgiving his son but , as he does , Kylo Ren choose to confound his crossguard lightsaber - the one so typical and broody of his precarious mood ,
And this is badass . Not just because it means Kylo FINALLY gets to wield the same gamy lightsaber as Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker - but because it ’s the minute where Kylo Ren the baddie dies and Ben Solo , the Word of two Rebel Alliance heroes , arrive back to the light side of the force .
Beating The Knights
The Knights of Ren search cool when we first hear them inThe Force Awakensbut , having been mostly overlooked throughout the sequel trilogy , that meant we had no issues with seeing them kill and killed by Ben Solo just before the epical closing curtain ofThe Rise of Skywalker .
They ab initio beat up Kylo pretty unfit - before Rey come to his saving by handing him Anakin and Luke ’s former lightsaber via one of their violence bonds . The timing is great and the sight of him fighting manically , with his mob heirloom in his monomania , is a joyfulness for all Star Wars fans to behold .
Saving Rey
interview were stun into secrecy at the import where Ben Solo holds Rey ’s lifeless body . It seemed cruel that , after he ’d eventually come back to the light , their chance of team up and being together had faded .
However , in a sensational twist , Ben sacrifices himself so that the girl he ’d fall in making love with could live on comply her victory over Palpatine . It ’s lurid to see a character who murdered his father just two movies ago perform such a altruistic act and the mint of Kylo Ren smiling - while a tad surprising - make a welcome change due to how he spend most of the sequel trilogy brood and lashing out in peril .
Dying
It ’s not incisively a badass moment but , because of what he did minute antecedently , it ’s a substantial one . Ben Solo , after ultimately being redeem , dies as a result of his efforts to spare Rey .
That intend that the final Skywalker ( by parentage ) perishes , thus ending the story of the Skywalkers . However , we ’re still not happy that , after such a Brobdingnagian gesture , Ben does n’t even get his own force ghost . If Anakin , who killed multitudinous younglings , is able to become one then does n’t his grandson deserve to as well ? Sigh .
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