I went with an open mind that’The Force Awakens’ would be a good new movie. It wasn’t:-( I never felt the need to write a review before but this movie is so poor compared to the hype I felt compelled to do so! Feel like I’ve been chewed up by a shameless marketing scam!
The visuals were good. The acting was poor! The characters never really sounded in danger- or made me feel for them- no intensity. An occasional good line but mainly very obvious boring dialogue.
Had read it was as witty or wittier than’A New Hope’- Nope! Worst, I must strongly have the Force, because I knew the entire story and visuals- in advance. There there were NO elements of surprise, even in details:-/. There was also little chemistry between the characters. Occasionally an echo of a scene from Empire strikes back between Han Solo & Leia but hard to believe the director didn’t set up better scenes for any of the characters- new or old- with all the fondness for those earier movies. He obviously thought he didn’t need to- marketing & peoples hope would make that redundant?! I’d been fed the nostalgia line EG that there was the’Alien Cafe scene’ .
Sadly THIS time without the catchy music or original aliens! This movie is a blow by blow rehash of A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back with a sprinkle of Gollum(same actor & production house) and a poor version of Severus from Harry Potter, as Badies. & nothing done as well as in those original movies.Visuals only bright spot- good but opening scene with character Rey, but shamelessly copied from famous Japanese Anime, ’Nausicaa’ I hear from an anime buff friend. 1/10 for originality in the entire movie then!? Annoyed!
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