Star Wars Episode 7

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I will try to keep this as low of a spoiler count as I can, but this is a warning to the readers.
Going into this film I tried to keep my expectations as low as I possibly could because, well the prequels.
The film picks up thirty years after the return of the Jedi and a new empire has a
empire has risen in the form of the First Order. Their mission is to destroy everything that destroyed the original Empire, including Luke Skywalker.
The film most defintley gets the feel of the original films back, which was very necessary for a movie like this. To me, there were two great perfomances in the film, in the form of Oscar Isaac as Pie and Daisey Ridley.
There were a few things I was a little eh about as well. The film had serious mirrors to A New Hope which made the movie thoroughly predictable the whole way through. The character of Poe played by Oscar Isaac was criminally under used considering how well the character is written written. Finally, Kylo Ren peopl have criticised the casting of Adam Driver in the role, I don't really agree with. But he takes his mask off way to early in the film, and I believe, it hurts the emotional punch of the character.
In the end it is a decent movie that is very much better than the prequels, it just missed its mark for me by a tad.
GRADE:B

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  1. Sonia CercaDecember 21, 2015 at 2:36 AM

    I did criticise the casting of Driver as Kylo Ren, but after watching the film I've been surprised by how well he portrayed the character. The "I've seen this before" moments didn't bother me at all, even though they made the film quite predictable. I didn't like the fact that Rey learns to use the Force with no training and immediately.

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  2. CoreyDecember 21, 2015 at 10:52 AM

    They tried real hard to push th connections between her and luke. I don't know if they were thinking greatest jedi ever so she shouldn't need training? Who knows....

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