Quote: sootyj @ 17th December 2015, 6:13 PM GMTSpoiler free review of the Force Awakens. This film was a bit of a disapointment, basically there's nothing in it that wasn't in the first couple of films. The new cast seem uneasy and unconfident in their roles. Only to be expected when they're in part 7 of a saga, that seems to have no confidence to say anything new And the oldies seem to be reliving parts they left beind more than 3 decades ago. Where as Empire and a New Hope had a pervasive sense of menace, from an all powerful empire and force of evil. Here I wasn't sure what was going on. Was the Empire defeated? Was there a new republic? What's the big action bit meant to be? Is that a major character? It's a jumble of other people's better ideas filtered through a committee with an eye on sequels, TV shows and merchandise. There's no rebel trenches on Hoth shaking as the might of the Imperium marches on them, no Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy. No snappy, witty natural character dialogue. Just awful crowbarred in winking punnery. And where as the effects are good they really aren't any better than say the Avengers, it doesn't matter how good an Xwing looks skimming over a lake if it's going nowhere. The film has no real centre nor a central character to fixate on. It certainly doesn't have the cool, menace of Bespen and it's devious caretaker. Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back the only 2 really good starwars films are decades old and are legendary now. So it seems positively necrophiliac to dig them up and bolt on new fx which TFA basically does. This unhappy zombie scifi film tbh feels like so many scifi films these days, a sad dump for profit all over childhood memories. It lacks the vision even of the Phantom Menace etc which at least tried to do something new, with the fx revoloution even if they largely failed. Come on JJ Abrahams do something new, tell a fresh story with new technology. Stop looking over your shoulder or we'll end up with another Lost in Space.
Well you just shat all over the one last thing in this world I have to live for
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