Saturday, December 26, 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 - ★★★★

You can also find this review on Letterboxd

Second watching because my dad didn't wanna go see it alone.

I still really enjoyed it but still, it left some questions open for me that feel very much like plot holes.

Why is Han Solo known to Finn, a storm trouper, as a "War Hero"? Shouldn't he be more like either never mentioned in their live or basically made out to be Hitler?

Why does Rey know that Jedi can do the mind trick? Just a day ago she thought that Jedi never really existed and were just old stories so why would she know about it? And how does she use it?

Also found some things that I really liked. The sets are awesome, and I am really happy that Abrams preferred sets over green screen, the ending scene for example looked awesome. Also the desert in the beginning, just breathtaking.

I love the old school edits they used, of course reminiscing of how they were done in the old movies. Wipe to left, wipe to right, just great.

And I loved the acting, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have a great chemistry together.

Those are just some quick afterthoughts after rewatching the movie. I'm keeping the rating of 4 stars out of 5.

PS: this time, every time Kylo Ren took off his mask, some guy in the audience had to hold back to not laugh out loud. Very amusing.

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