Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) by Joel S — 16 Jan 2018

J.J Abrams tried, Can you be done for plagiarism by your own company?

We had been waiting a long time for this moment, and when Kevin Smith posted photos of him crying telling us how beautiful it all was my expectations went through the roof!

Sitting in the cinema on Boxing Day watching the Opening crawl, Luke missing had me excited, but the whole idea that basically the empire was still going 30 years after it had been defeated, I screwed my face up a little at, Really you couldn't have come up with another brute force to come in and try and take control.. oh well then it got into Poe talking with old mate i'm getting excited just about kicking my cousin who was sitting next to me.

And that scene with Kylo stopping the laser blast, just about had jumping out of my seat and punching Him as I sat watching in amazement.

The fighter pilot was awesome, and the defector helping him escape I'm thinking to myself, 'hey this is going to be a great buddy film, get a bit of a bromance happening, meanwhile - questions burning like who's Finns parents, he doesn't know them maybe he's one of Lukes? Landos and Leias? didn't he have the lightsaber in the trailer??

And that's possibly where the good stuff ends, sure seeing Han and Chewie get back on the Falcon pulled at the old heart strings hearing that great on liner.

But really we got a Rehash of episode 4, with a female Lead, nothing wrong with that. but nothing right with making a rehash.

The whole movie is a carbon copy of Episode 4.

Examples:

1. Rey rehashes what old Obi Wan does in the death star. on Star killer base climbing stuff, running through corridors, same camera angles and then using a Jedi mind trick on Stormtroopers.

Bad fan theory "is she Obi Wan's Granddaughter".

Hell no, that guy was like a Catholic Priest.

2. An Old guy sacrifices himself, for others.

3. Another Death Star.

4. A droid stumbling across our hero.

5. Another desert planet, with another whiny nobody.

6. One girl, Two guys, a droid, and a Wookie.

The list goes on.

My Edits:

1. Remove the desert planet.

2. Rey as a scavenger, almost slave. rich girl, lost her parents, bit of a bitchy attitude, gets better over course of the movie.

3. Han wouldn't ever have lost the falcon.

4. Han sticks around, for Leia and does everything to get him back not hide.

5. Where's Lando?

6. Luke should have rocked up to fight Ren after Han is murdered, that's kinda his thing, sensing when his friends are in danger.

7. Not another death star.

8. Seriously storm troopers? the army kept the same look for 50 years?? the helmets aren't that different! complete new design.

Final Word:

J.J Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan should have sat down and maybe not released this film until 2018, and came up with a bit better story line, LISTENED to the master and used George Lucas's idea and edited the screenplay, cause even George himself has said in the making of Star Wars movies he's not the most articulate with words, but at least he has some good stories to tell. You had some good ideas at the start but then gave us a new rip off.