This Is Not How You Start a Trilogy: “Hope” Gets a Nope From Me
Despite it being one of the most visually impressive action movies I’ve ever seen, everything else fell short of my expectations.

It’s the summer vacation and Kenneth is spending his days at home with his yaya, Inday. With his parents’ leaving for work before he can even open his eyes, Kenneth is free to use the entire day to discover himself as who he really is deep inside: a girl, all before they come home at 6 P.M. Yaya Inday does her best to help Kenneth break out of his shell by doing his makeup, calling him pretty, and buying him gifts. However, she can’t protect him from everything harmful. One day, when his parents were supposed to arrive home later than usual, Kenneth and Yaya Inday go all out and stage a fashion show, but not everything goes to plan and Kenneth soon faces his painful reality.
Despite it being one of the most visually impressive action movies I’ve ever seen, everything else fell short of my expectations.
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It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
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