So I watched Star Wars The Force Awakens in opening night, I planned to review this movie after my second watching when it comes out on Blue-Ray but by then I am sure most of the people will have lost their interest, so here I am with my review of The Force Awakens. SPOILERS WILL BE AHEAD.
The story takes place right after the events of episode 6 by continuing the story forward, there is a new order lead by a sith named Kylo Ren trying to find Luke Skywalker who has gone missing has well has the resistance lead by general Leia... the entire race to find Luke becomes more rushing when the resistance finally get a hold on a map that can help them spot Luke's whereabouts and maybe save him from the new order since he is the last of the jedi. Through the story the droid carrying the map meets up with Rey, a young woman stranded on the planet Jakku and Fynn a former member of the new order gone rogue and together they must find their way back to the resistance's HQ and find Luke before the Kylo Ren and the order do.
First I want to talk about what I liked, the story is very good; not only is it easy to fallow and simple to identify with but is also well passed and the characters are well developed through the story, it's great to see nostalgic characters from the original trilogy in the film but made even better by having them take a meaningful roll in the movie... well at least Han Solo is the only one with a significative roll in the movie but it's still great to see the movie taking big risks like seeing Han die in the hands of his own son, it's something very significative and undeniably brave by the writers knowing the backlash they would get by fans.
One thing you probably noticed while watching the film is how similar The Force Awakens is to A New Hope, although not word for word it is pretty much structured like A New Hope, the sequence of events play out the same way has episode 4 witch it's not necessarily a bad thing for me... since Star Wars in general has always been more character driven than plot driven and The Force Awakens develops well the protagonist of Rey, she is identifiable, sympathetic, likable and memorable just like Luke back in the original trilogy.
Is The Force Awakens a perfect film? No...
Is it better than the original trilogy? No...
But has a movie it's still very good... Lovable characters, good story line and fun action. If you are a Star Wars fan you have already seen it... if you haven't and for whatever reason you decided to read my review then I still would recommend you check it out if you are looking for some good sic-fi action.
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