Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Issac, Billy Dee Williams & Naomi Ackie

Written by Chris Terrio & J. J. Abrams

Directed By J. J. Abrams

By R. Paul Dhillon

Disney is taking Star Wars fans for a ride while filling its coffers with a lame line-up of films.

The current and last of the new trilogy which began with The Force Awakens and now ends with The Rise of Skywalker is another half-ass  entry in the franchise taken over by Disney which is at best now an average space odyssey without any wonder or much imagination from what Star Wars Godfather George Lucas left us with.

In the current trilogy, all I saw was the makers trout out the old stars with the new ones with half-baked, redundant stories about the force always being with you and some meaningless fight to save the empire that really ring false with not much emotional connection to the story or many of the characters. The stories just don’t further the wondrous galaxy that Lucas created.

The problem is that in an escapism cinema world populated by Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy - the Star Wars stories come across as those catered to five year olds (don’t make too much of the lesbian kiss in current Skywalker film - it comes at the end and many will hardly notice the two women kissing or make much of it cause it’s not between any of the main characters).

Stars Wars films come across as average space sagas that are ok for a movie night out but they are no event films. But still the Star Wars posse comes out in droves and Disney is happy taking the billions to the bank from them. Even though Skywalker will be third lowest of trilogy in first weekend collections, it’s still expected to make $195 million in North America - fandom pays even if it’s lame shit!

The new star studded Cats film meanwhile will make a measly $8 million this weekend. This is what Martin Scorsese is saying when he says Disney films are not cinema but an extension of their theme parks and threat to real cinema stories that are not getting their due in cinema houses in the current world dominated by streaming giants like Netflix.

But the future for Star Wars isn’t bright unless they bring back writers like DB Weiss and David Benioff (both of whom were hired but left over creative differences) for radical engineering of the Star Wars universe.