Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Delivers the Thrills, With a Touch of Humanity

Rating: Null/10 (17 December 2015)

The Force Awakens re-awoke my love of the first movie and turned my inner fan boy into my outer fan boy. There are very few films which leave me facially exhausted after grinning for 135 minutes, but this is one. And when Han Solo and Chewie come on, I had a feeling in the cinema I haven't had since I was 16: not knowing whether to burst into tears or into applause.
JJ Abrams and veteran co-writer Lawrence Kasdan have created a film which is both a narrative progression from the earlier three films and a shrewdly affectionate next-gen reboot of the original 1977 Star Wars — rather in the style of his tremendous re-imagining of the Kirk/Spock Star Trek. Familiar personae, situations and weapons will appear like covers or remixes, and meshed in with new story lines. This notice will be a safe space, incidentally, with a trigger warning only for basic plot points and material already in the public domain.