Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) by Ivan S — 14 Dec 2017

I liked the film a lot, but my biggest problem are the major similarities to A New Hope. I understand that Disney was nervous in making a new Star Wars film with all the high expectations, but I feel doing the story similarities backfired - at least for me.

I absolutely loved the cliffhanger (quite literally) at the end of the film, and loved that Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker only appeared for a couple of seconds throughout the film, yet he was mentioned constantly. I also loved the absence of Luke in all the promotions and such for the film, as it really hyped up fans to see Luke Skywalker.