The final episode of the Skywalker Saga has received incredibly mixed reviews. The film currently has a 57% rotten score (with an average rating of 6.23/10) on the popular aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes. The audiences generally seem to like it though, as the film has a 86% audience score on RT, a huge leap from The Last Jedi‘s 91%. However, when we look at Cinemascore (a site that measures the audience’s appeal of a movie by polling movie audiences in the US on opening night), The Rise of Skywalker (B+) has not only the lowest score of this sequel trilogy — The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, scored As respectively — but of the entire Star Wars saga. But audience scores, just like critic scores are frankly rather unreliable when it comes to predicting a film’s box office, which is fuelled primarily by the casual audiences. On Cinemascore, Joker received a B+ and grossed $US 1 billion while Crimes of Grindelwald which received the same score, only grossed $US 659 million. The same can be said about the Rotten Tomatoes audience score. Alita: Battle Angel has a 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed a highly disappointing $US 404.8 million at the global box office. I’ll do an in-depth breakdown of Star Wars box office numbers through the ages once the film reaches the end of its line. However, for now, here’s what we can take away from its $US 373.5 million opening weekend. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is currently playing in cinemas.
