Reviews

Ten years after the lesser Star Wars prequel trilogy wrapped up with the mostly solid if not perfect Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas' ever-popular space opera saga gets yet another trilogy in the making, this time in the hands of J.J.

Abrams Star Wars is more like a modern Star Trek film or modern blockbuster that just happens to take place in the same universe as the other films in this franchise.

I had never seen a good star wars film in theaters (I saw 3 and the Clone Wars movie in theaters as well but those weren't particularly good).

We had 2 major battles at the end of this film instead of 3 but the choreography, mixed with the way the movie gets you to care, or hate, the characters involved makes the movie stand strong next to the other movies that came before it.

Namely it's inability to be it's own idea, sure it's got new characters and a new setting but when you take a step back and look at it, it's essentially just A New Hope filled to the brim with references to the other Star Wars films.

Throughout the entire movie I felt like the older characters represented the generation of people who had seen the movies tons of times, while the new protagonists were the new viewers, with The Force Awakens being their first movie.

Being a film that is most definitely guaranteed a sequel above all others, The Force Awakens manages to tease out all manner of plot points with the unspoken promise that they will be resolved in later installments, but that also has the effect of making the film feel fundamentally incomplete beyond...

If a better director had made this movie, and a corporation wasn't looming overhead with it's greedy puppeteer strings tugging at everything, this could have been a truly great movie.

The similarities can be off putting at times and this is no doubt, Abrams and co simply giving us some fan service, but the film holds its own and it one entertaining thrill ride from start to finish.

If he hadnt done anything else, keeping the whole story arc of Lost together indicates that Abrams respects the need to have story telling and human characters as the core of a series, even if it is a techie, epic monster such as Star Wars.