Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) by Danielhero1998 — 02 Feb 2016

Fun, visually jawdropping and well acted, Star Wars The Force Awakens is a welcome return for the Star Wars franchsie after the dark times (the special editions and the prequels). This is the best Star Wars movie since 1983 (the year when Return Of The Jedi came out). It mixes the old and the new perfectly.

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The new cast (Daisy Ridley, Jon Boyega and Oscar Issac) is great, as well as the old cast (Mark Hamill (even though he does not say a single word in the movie xD), Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford).

The effects are fantastic (minus the CGI on the rathtars and Mas Kanata). It mixes CGI effects and practical effects wonderfully.

It is a fun ride from start to finish with great banter between the characters, realistic looking lightsaber fights (more realistic then the cartoon fights in the prequels), exciting ship to ship battles/chases (The Millenium Falcon chase on Jakku was an edge on your seat level ride :D).

Kylo Ren was a great villian. He was conflicted, had understandable motvations (he wants to be as powerful as Darth Vader was) and the scene between him and Han Solo was perfect (it is also the scene where Han Solo died, which was heartbreaking ;_;).

The flaws I had with TFA is as I said before the CGI on the rathtars and Mas Kanata. They didn`t blend in that well and look like something from the prequels (which is not good O_O), the stupidly over the top speech from General Hux on Starkiller Base was so unintentionally funny and Starkiller Base (it was just a third Death Star, but the end battle on it was fun :D).

Overall, I give Star Wars The Force Awakens a 9/10. I have seen it 3 times now, and I want to see it one more time before it goes out from the theaters and releases on Blu Ray/DVD. I am pleased with what JJ Abrams, Disney and Lucasfilm has done with The Force Awakens and I am excited for Rouge One this December, Episode 8, Episode 9, and furte sequels and spin-offs.