Star Wars - An Old Fear: Just Another Rey Nobody Sequel Trilogy Edit

The sequel trilogy is, from start to finish, an utter trainwreck without any logic or plan in place. Editing one movie into something good is an enormous task but doing so for a whole trilogy is nearly impossible.

Wakeupkeo did a fairly admirable job distilling the wreckage into something more cohesive and (thank god) shorter to consume rather than sitting through 3 long and meandering movies. It still has some logical inconsistencies, but that's not entirely the fan editor's fault. The Canto Bight sequence is something that should have been excised, and other edits have done that (as well as cutting out Benicio Del Toro's character) well enough, speeding up the Last Jedi section and removing the awfulness of that entire time waster.

Overall, if you like the sequel trilogy you'll like this more. If you hate it (as I do) you'll hate it a little less. I wouldn't recommend the edit to someone who dislikes this trilogy but for sure would to a full fledged or on the fence fan.

Watched this the other day (all 4+ hours) with a half way intermission!!

I loved the pacing this edit has, it really tightens up the story and gives much more rounded characterizations for all the main players. Personally I could do without the casino sub plot, but unfortunately its important to the story! However, it's seamlessly included despite the directors wrong turn!!
Any way, the 3 movies have been morphed very skillfully into one extended version and the Star Wars 3rd act is all the better for it. I'm now going to look for the same sort of thing for the other 2 trilogies!.
Thank you Wakeupkeo.

This review is for version 3.04 HQ of the 4.5+ hr cut.

For me, Wakeupkeo did a great job with Episodes VI and VII.

Episode VI's resequencing tightened up the movie and made it more enjoyable. I think there is an opportunity to make the treat to the Republic Capitol clearer - earlier and tenser. Also, one character appears at the Republic Capitol while earlier appears with Lea at the Resistance base, which adds some confusion.

Episode VII is still my favorite of this trilogy and section of the edit.

Episode VIII is easily the weakest of the trilogy and section of this edit. I appreciate that the editor tried to tighten up this bloated movie and wrap it up strong. Most of the content excised I don't ever need to watch again, but I think some needs to be added back for context, character, and narrative. Examples:
Kylo pops up to battle Rey out of nowhere. Lando emerges from the shadows on the Resistance base like he's been there the whole time, just waiting to drop some knowledge on Poe. Kylo heals Rey in the middle of the battle with Palpatine - while I like this idea, I didn't buy Palpatine chilling off-screen for such an extended period.
Additionally, it would make the story more cohesive to connect Rey and Kylo at least once more in this section of the edit. There are other issues here, but those are the ones that I remember.

I was going to suggest adding Chapter Titles or something to indicate/ease the transition between sections and because I don't think it works to call this Episode VI overall. Now that I'm writing this, I'm not sure that's the right solution. I did enjoy experiencing all three of the movies flowing into each other. Another solution might be to allow the space travel for Ray and Chewie from the Resistance base to Luke and Kylo's journey to Palpatine more time on-screen.

Regardless this is the best version of these three movies I've watched, and I enjoyed the first 3.75 hrs or so! Wakeupkeo certainly made a bad trilogy less bad! I'll need to watch the Anti-TLJ Cut at some point as well. Thanks for your efforts!

Very enjoyable edit of the new stars wars movies, a nice clean-up of the story, and the shift of keeping things not so obvious is greatly appreciated. I will mos def recommend this as an edit to watch,

Very enjoyable. I was unable to complete either of the 3 sequels. I found it ridiculous that a girl from nowhere could match wits with a guy who spent his life learning the force. I hated the political correctness and the unnecessary jokes.

This edit made me like Star Wars again. 15 minutes into it, I stopped the movie. Got popcorn and beer. I knew it was going to be great show and it was. I can tell that the last sequel was a bunch of nonsense because of how much work Wakeupkeo had to do to edit the junk out.

Wonderful work! Thank you for giving me a link.