Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) by Sam R — 22 Dec 2017

Should have stuck with EU or Lucas's story. It's just not star wars anymore for me. It's over.

Aside from trashing Star Wars lore and derailing from the universe's internal logic it's a bad movie in it's own right. Here's why:

Common sense and logic defying scenes (eg. starkiller firing scene) Rey is a Mary Sue, main villains aren't threatening after the first scene, the most awful plot devices (a main arc is that we're trying to get a piece of an almost fully formed map? srsly? full blown kids movie now I guess?) and the award for worst deus ex machina of all time with R2D2 waking up at the end oh so conveniently because he fucking felt like it. He could have just woke up at the begging and saved the characters (and me) a lot of pain.